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Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:45:43 +0100
Subject: Re: allow line break at operators
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On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Yingjie Lan <lanyjie@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Is it possible for python to allow free splitting of single-line statements
> without the backslashes, if we impose that expressions can only be split
> when it is not yet a finished expression?

The trouble is that in a lot of cases, the next statement after an
unfinished expression could conceivably be a continuation of it. If
this were permitted, it would have to also require that the
continuation lines be indented, to avoid the problem described above.
It'd still have the potential to mis-diagnose errors, though.

ChrisA