Ron Adam wrote: > Georg Brandl wrote: >> Ron Adam wrote: >>> Michael Hobbs wrote: >>> >>>> The same problem that is solved by not having to type parens around the >>>> 'if' conditional, a la C and its derivatives. That is, it's unnecessary >>>> typing to no good advantage, IMHO. I was coding in Ruby for several >>>> months and got very comfortable with just typing the if conditional and >>>> hitting return, without any extra syntax. When I came back to Python, I >>>> found that I felt annoyed every time I typed the colon, since it >>>> obviously isn't required. The FAQ says that the colon increases >>>> readability, but I'm skeptical. The indentation seems to provide more >>>> than enough of a visual clue as to where the if conditional ends. > >>> I'm not sure why '\'s are required to do multi-line before the colon. >> >> Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules. >> >> Georg > > A bit of a circular answer. > > Why the rule? -> So not to break the rule?
You proposed to allow leaving off line continuation '\' only in the "if", "for" and "while" headers. This is a special case in my eyes. > I would guess this probably is more applicable in this case. > > Explicit is better than implicit. Of course, this always applies :) Georg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
