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From: Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
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Subject: Re: How to fix those errors?
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 20:25:06 +1300
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Roy Smith wrote:
> Wouldn't it make more sense to use four periods?
> 
> def spam(arg)....
>     for x in seq....
>         pass

Conversely, to save space you should be able to
stack one of the dots of an ellipsis on top and
write it as either .: or :.

Taking this even further, we could allow all
characters to be encoded in 90-degree-rotated
Braille. This would be a tremendous advantage
for blind or poorly-sighted Python users.

-- 
Greg