On 2006-11-10, Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 14:44:21 -0600, Tim Chase ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declaimed the following in > comp.lang.python: > >> A few arbitrary warts per-dictum of BDFL are fine though...it >> still looks much cleaner compared to PHP & Perl ;-) >> > Or line continuation in REXX... Where you get such oddities as: > > call xyz(a, b, c, , > d, e, f) > > That is NOT a NULL argument between c and d... The first comma > is the argument separator, the second comma is the > to-be-continued marker
Eyiyi! That's yugly. The colon's main purpose seems to be to allow one-liners: Easy to parse: if a < b: a += 1 Hard to parse if a < b a += 1 -- Neil Cerutti When you're in the public eye, it's wrong to cheat on someone, unless you're very careful. If you're normal and no one's going to know, then do it. --Paris Hilton -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
