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Chris Barker chris.barker at noaa.gov
Mon Jan 9 20:32:41 EST 2017 
Oh,

Here is the history of the colon:

http://python-history.blogspot.com/2009/02/early-language-design-and-development.html

-CHB


On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 5:30 PM, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:

> I just noticed a logical inconsistency here:
>
> The Good:
>>     Syntactically significant indenting
>
>
>
>> The Bad:
>>     Colons at the end of if/while/for blocks.
>>
>
>
>>     No end required for if/while/for blocks.
>
>
> Huh? if you have Syntactically significant indenting, then an "end"
> indicator is redundant. and right above, you say you don't like the
> redundant colon....
>
> which is it??
>
>  It also is a potential problem with tab expansion tricking the programmer.
>
>
> I do wish tabs had been banned from indentation from the beginning....
>
>
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