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On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Thomas Jollans <t...@jollybox.de> wrote: > On 07/11/2011 03:51 PM, Anthony Kong wrote: > > Hi, all, > > > > Lately I am giving some presentations to my colleagues about the python > > language. A new internal project is coming up which will require the use > > of python. > > > > One of my colleague asked an interesting: > > > > /If Python use indentation to denote scope, why it still needs > > semi-colon at the end of function declaration and for/while/if loop?/ > > > > My immediate response is: it allows us to fit statements into one line. > > e.g. if a == 1: print a > > > > However I do not find it to be a particularly strong argument. I think > > PEP8 does not recommend this kind of coding style anyway, so one-liner > > should not be used in the first place! > > Basically, it looks better, and is more readable. A colon, in English > like in Python, means that something follows that is related to what was > before the colon. So the colon makes it abundantly clear to the human > reader that a block follows, and that that block is to be considered in > relation to what was just said, before the colon. > > Coincidentally, Guido wrote this blog post just last week, without which > I'd be just as much at a loss as you: > > > http://python-history.blogspot.com/2011/07/karin-dewar-indentation-and-colon.html > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- /*--*/ Don’t EVER make the mistake that you can design something better than what you get from ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error with a feedback cycle. That’s giving your intelligence _much_ too much credit. - Linus Torvalds
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