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Tue Apr 17 14:58:34 EDT 2001 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-April/066122.html

In message <3ADC5AE1.53C3C4FE at alcyone.com>
          Erik Max Francis <max at alcyone.com> wrote:

> Tim Howarth wrote:
> 
> > Being lazy, I wondered if something like the following was possible in
> > Python?
> 
> Hopefully not.  In every language that kind of syntax has been
> introduced, it has only led to trouble.

I've met it in Delphi and assumed it was the norm for object properties.

> It saves a small amount of typing (and not very much) at the expense of
> a lack of clarity and the addition of ambiguity.

I thought with Python's block indenting it would be pretty clear what
was being referred to.

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