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Re: An interesting beginner question: why we need colon at all in the python language?

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On 2011-07-13, Thorsten Kampe <thorsten@thorstenkampe.de> wrote:
> * Grant Edwards (Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:03:22 +0000 (UTC))
>> On 2011-07-13, Thorsten Kampe <thorsten@thorstenkampe.de> wrote:
>> 
>> >> and that that block is to be considered in relation to what was just
>> >> said, before the colon.
>> >
>> > The indentation makes it abundantly clear to the human reader that
>> > that indented block is to be considered in relation to what was just
>> > said, before the indentation.
>
>> You would think so, but human readers like redundancy.
>
> I also like redundancy (and consistency). That's why I'd much more 
> prefer a "then" than a colon which is easily overlooked while reading 
> /and/ while writing.

How is the "then" going to be consistent with other things that also
introduce blocks (def, try, with, etc.).

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Re: An interesting beginner question: why we need colon at all in the python language? Thomas Jollans <t@jollybox.de> - 2011-07-11 16:16 +0200
  Re: An interesting beginner question: why we need colon at all in the python language? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2011-07-11 14:43 +0000
  Re: An interesting beginner question: why we need colon at all in the python language? alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2011-07-12 23:26 -0700
    Re: An interesting beginner question: why we need colon at all in the python language? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-07-13 12:18 -0400
  Re: An interesting beginner question: why we need colon at all in   the python language? Thorsten Kampe <thorsten@thorstenkampe.de> - 2011-07-13 10:08 +0200
    Re: An interesting beginner question: why we need colon at all in   the python language? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-07-13 21:07 +1000
      Re: An interesting beginner question: why we need colon at all in   the python language? Thorsten Kampe <thorsten@thorstenkampe.de> - 2011-07-13 13:26 +0200
        Re: An interesting beginner question: why we need colon at all in the python language? Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2011-07-13 07:16 -0500
      Re: An interesting beginner question: why we need colon at all in the python language? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-07-13 21:58 +1000
      Re: An interesting beginner question: why we need colon at all in   the python language? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2011-07-13 13:18 +0000
    Re: An interesting beginner question: why we need colon at all in   the python language? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2011-07-13 13:03 +0000
      Re: An interesting beginner question: why we need colon at all in the python language? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-07-13 23:11 +1000
      Re: An interesting beginner question: why we need colon at all in     the python language? Thorsten Kampe <thorsten@thorstenkampe.de> - 2011-07-13 19:27 +0200
      Re: An interesting beginner question: why we need colon at all in the python language? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2011-07-14 14:34 +0000
        Re: An interesting beginner question: why we need colon at all in the python language? Wanderer <wanderer@dialup4less.com> - 2011-07-14 08:14 -0700
          Re: An interesting beginner question: why we need colon at all in the python language? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-07-16 14:07 +1000

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