On 03/15/2012 09:18 AM, Kiuhnm wrote: > ----> After early user testing without the colon, it was discovered that > the meaning of the indentation was unclear to beginners being taught the > first steps of programming. <---- > > The addition of the colon clarified it significantly: the colon somehow > draws attention to what follows and ties the phrases before and after it > together in just the right way." > > If that passage is correct, those studies don't say that adding the > colon increases the readability, but that it makes more sense to > beginners who don't even know what indentation is.
Seems to me that helping code to make more sense to a beginner is, by definition, increasing readability. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
