James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Friday 25 March 2005 08:39 am, Ivan Van Laningham wrote:
> Why do we need : at the end of our if and for loops? I spend approximately 6
> minutes/100 lines of code going back and finding all of the times I missed :.
> Is it for cheating?
Because newlines are optional statement terminators. Without the ':',
the end of the statement would depend on the state of the lexer, which
isn't something you want to impose on people.
<mike
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