On 2010-11-07, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote: > In message <87sjzige0r....@benfinney.id.au>, Ben Finney wrote: > >> Seebs <usenet-nos...@seebs.net> writes: >> >>> On 2010-11-03, Steven D'Aprano <steve-remove-t...@cybersource.com.au> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Python does explicitly mark blocks. It does it by changes in >>>> indentation. An indent is an explicit start-block. An outdent is an >>>> explicit end- block. There is nothing implicit in a change in indent >>>> level. >>> >>> What's the token that marks the end of a block, corresponding to the >>> colon used to introduce it? >> >> You have introduced this requirement for tokens; it's fallacious. The >> direct answer is: tokens aren't part of the requirement to be explicit. >> >> The more general answer is: the block is explicitly ended where the >> indentation ends. > > That's implicit, not explicit.
If you can _see_ it, how is it implicit? -- Grant -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
