Georg Brandl wrote:
> Ron Adam wrote:
>> Michael Hobbs wrote:
>>
>>> The same problem that is solved by not having to type parens around the
>>> 'if' conditional, a la C and its derivatives. That is, it's unnecessary
>>> typing to no good advantage, IMHO. I was coding in Ruby for several
>>> months and got very comfortable with just typing the if conditional and
>>> hitting return, without any extra syntax. When I came back to Python, I
>>> found that I felt annoyed every time I typed the colon, since it
>>> obviously isn't required. The FAQ says that the colon increases
>>> readability, but I'm skeptical. The indentation seems to provide more
>>> than enough of a visual clue as to where the if conditional ends.
>> I'm not sure why '\'s are required to do multi-line before the colon.
>
> Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.
>
> Georg
A bit of a circular answer.
Why the rule? -> So not to break the rule?
I would guess this probably is more applicable in this case.
Explicit is better than implicit.
Ron
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