On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Sébastien Volle > <sebastien.vo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Could it have been made optional, like the trailing comma in list > > declaration? > > Cobra makes the colons optional, so probably yes. > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > A little redundancy in a computer language facilitates error checking - much like the bits of redundancy in one's English make written and voice communication less error prone. But strictly speaking, the colon could've been left out.
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