Tim Chase wrote: > A few arbitrary warts per-dictum of BDFL are fine though...it > still looks much cleaner compared to PHP & Perl ;-)
Well, it's neither arbitrary nor simply the preference of the BFDL. The ABC project actually did empirical experiments with programmers to find that code comprehension improved by adding the colon. Here's a post from Uncle Timmy mentioning it: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/525480d0caa61b7f/8d568e684d653003?lnk=st&q=group%3Acomp.lang.python+ABC+colon+experiment&rnum=2#8d568e684d653003 Unfortunately, my Google-fu has not located an actual paper. It might be in here somewhere: http://homepages.cwi.nl/~steven/abc/publications.html -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
