On Fri, Apr 29, 2005, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> At 10:42 AM 4/29/05 -0700, Aahz wrote:
>>On Fri, Apr 29, 2005, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>> [Phillip J. Eby]
>>>>
>>>> Although I'd personally prefer a no-keyword approach:
>>>>
>>>> synchronized(self):
>>>> with_file("foo") as f:
>>>> # etc.
>>>
>>> I'd like that too, but it was shot down at least once. Maybe we can
>>> resurrect it?
>>>
>>> opening("foo") as f:
>>> # etc.
>>
>>I'm still -1 for the same reason I mentioned earlier: function calls
>>spanning multiple lines are moderately common in Python code, and it's
>>hard to distinguish these cases because multi-line calls usually get
>>indented like blocks.
>
> But the indentation of a multi-line call doesn't start with a colon.
Neither does the un-keyworded block. It starts with a colon on the end
of the previous line. I thought part of the point of Python was to
minimize reliance on punctuation, especially where it's not clearly
visible?
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