On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Yingjie Lan <lany...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Is it possible for python to allow free splitting of single-line statements > without the backslashes, if we impose that expressions can only be split > when it is not yet a finished expression? :The trouble is that in a lot of cases, the next statement after an :unfinished expression could conceivably be a continuation of it. If :this were permitted, it would have to also require that the :continuation lines be indented, to avoid the problem described above. :It'd still have the potential to mis-diagnose errors, though. Indentation is a good idea to reduce the likelihood of such troubles. and also produce code that is easier to read. Yingjie -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list