Ron Adam wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> >>>>> 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? >> >> >> >> You proposed to allow leaving off line continuation '\' only in the >> >> "if", "for" and "while" headers. This is a special case in my eyes. >> >> Ron> I wasn't that specific and it was related to Michael's suggestion >> Ron> the colon wasn't needed. If the need for '\' was dropped in >> Ron> multi-line block headers, then the colon would be required for an >> Ron> obvious reason. >> >> But \ is used to continue all sorts of statements/expressions, e.g.: >> >> x = a + \ >> b >> >> not just conditionals. >> >> Skip >> > > Of course, and your point is? > > How about if it be ok to continue to use '\' in headers, but it also be ok to > not to? That would be the backward compatible way to change it. > > This doesn't answer the question I was asking, are there any situation where > it > would cause problems? And if so, that reason would be a good and explicit > reason for not making such a change
To be clear, this is the actual thrust of my argument. It seems redundant to have *both* line continuations and colons in compound statements. I've been arguing for the removal of colons, though to be honest, I'd be content with the opposite approach as well. - Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
