Could it have been made optional, like the trailing comma in list declaration?
-- Seb 2011/7/11 Anthony Kong <anthony.hw.k...@gmail.com> > Awesome! Thanks for blog post link > > Cheers > > > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Thomas Jollans <t...@jollybox.de> wrote: > >> On 07/11/2011 03:51 PM, Anthony Kong wrote: >> > Hi, all, >> > >> > Lately I am giving some presentations to my colleagues about the python >> > language. A new internal project is coming up which will require the use >> > of python. >> > >> > One of my colleague asked an interesting: >> > >> > /If Python use indentation to denote scope, why it still needs >> > semi-colon at the end of function declaration and for/while/if loop?/ >> > >> > My immediate response is: it allows us to fit statements into one line. >> > e.g. if a == 1: print a >> > >> > However I do not find it to be a particularly strong argument. I think >> > PEP8 does not recommend this kind of coding style anyway, so one-liner >> > should not be used in the first place! >> >> Basically, it looks better, and is more readable. A colon, in English >> like in Python, means that something follows that is related to what was >> before the colon. So the colon makes it abundantly clear to the human >> reader that a block follows, and that that block is to be considered in >> relation to what was just said, before the colon. >> >> Coincidentally, Guido wrote this blog post just last week, without which >> I'd be just as much at a loss as you: >> >> >> http://python-history.blogspot.com/2011/07/karin-dewar-indentation-and-colon.html >> >> -- >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >> > > > > -- > /*--*/ > Don’t EVER make the mistake that you can design something better than what > you get from ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error with a feedback > cycle. That’s giving your intelligence _much_ too much credit. > > - Linus Torvalds > > > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > >
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