> On Jul 16, 2020, at 1:36 PM, Chris Angelico <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 3:25 AM Federico Salerno <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> Tools should adapt to the language, not the other way around. If things had
>> to be done the way they had always been done, without any change, for fear
>> of people not being used to it, we wouldn't even have Python at all. People
>> learn and adapt. It seems like a small price to pay in exchange for
>> consistency and removal of ambiguity, considering people will still have to
>> learn the new feature one way or another.
>>
>
> But consistency is exactly what you'd be destroying here. Python is
> extremely consistent in that you ALWAYS indent after a line ends with
> a colon, and what comes after it is logically contained within that
> statement. It's about whether *people* can handle it, more than
> whether tools can, and the consistency helps a lot with that.
>
> ChrisA
>
One question that comes to mind, does match NEED a colon at the end of it? If
it didn’t have the colon, it wouldn’t need the indent for the following lines.
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