[Andrew Koenig]
> It has occurred to me that as Python stands today, an indent always begins
> with a colon. So in principle, we could define anything that looks like an
> indent but doesn't begin with a colon as a continuation. So the idea would
> be that you can continue a statement onto as many lines as you wish,
Too dangerous. The most common Python syntax error (by far, even for
experienced users) is omission of a colon. If the missing colon starts
to have its own special meaning, that would not be a good thing.
If you're in the mood to propose something radical, how about dropping
the colon altogether, leaving indention as the sure reliable cue and
cleaning-up the appearance of code in a new world where colons
are also being used for annotation as well as slicing:
def f(x: xtype, y: type)
result = []
for i, elem in enumerate(x)
if elem < 0
result.append(y[:i])
else
result.append(y[i:])
return result
It looks very clean to my eyes.
Raymond
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