> On Aug 10, 2011 10:57 PM, "Yingjie Lan" <lany...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> :And if we require {} then truly free indentation should be OK too! But
>>
>> :it wouldn't be Python any more.
>>
>> Of course, but not the case with ';'. Currently ';' is optional in Python,
>> But '{' is used for dicts. Clearly, ';' and '{' are different in
>> magnitude.
>>
>> So the decision is: shall we change ';' from optional to mandatory
>> to allow free line splitting?On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Michael Trausch <fd0...@gmail.com> wrote: > Perhaps it could be made an optional thing to enable; for example, some > languages by default do dynamic typing, but with an option contained as the > first statement of the file can enforce static typing. I am intrigued. What languages(s) have the feature you refer to? Cheers, Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
