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Jason Stokes jstok at bluedog.apana.org.au
Sun Mar 26 01:38:55 EST 2000 
Dirck Blaskey wrote in message ...
>Cliff Crawford <cjc26 at nospam.cornell.edu> wrote in message
>news:slrn8dqo5c.4sd.cjc26 at ith1-491.twcny.rr.com...
>> * Dirck Blaskey menulis:
>>>...
>>> Please, PLEASE make colon's optional when not needed.
>>> ...
>> I actually like the colons.  They seem to make code a little easier
>> to read.
>
>I don't dispute their aesthetic value,
>but for me, in practice, the requirement gets in the way.


The convention is easy enough to remember: as far as I've been able to make
out, any statement that governs other statements (that is to say, indented
underneath) ends with a colon.

I've found it easy enough to adapt to, but perhaps I have fewer entrenched
habits, being relatively new to programming.
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