On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 9:13 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: >> One less thing to be programmed, one less thing for the user to >> remember. Just require pass any time you have an empty block, rather >> than try to remember where it is required and were it is optional. > > Actually, the requirement of a dummy statement is a slight annoyance for > the programmer. After deleting a statement, you must see if you have to > put in a pass statement. And after adding a statement, you may feel the > urge to remove the redundant pass statement.
How often do you actually need empty statements, adding stuff, removing stuff, like that? Possibly there's a code smell here. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list