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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:12:44 +1100
Subject: Re: Python is readable
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 01:48:09 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> In a trivial example, it's mostly just noise:
>>
>> if a =3D=3D b =A0 =A0# who needs the colon?
>> =A0 =A0 print(c)
>
> The reader, for the same reason that above you wrote:
>
> "In a trivial example, it's mostly just noise COLON"
>
> and indeed I too used a colon for the same reason. It ties the lead
> sentence to the following block without ending the sentence, but still
> introducing a new grouping or clause.

Yep. As everyone who communicates on the internet knows, punctuation
can often be omitted without introducing ambiguity. That doesn't mean
it *should* be omitted. NOT TELEGRAMS TODAY STOP

ChrisA