On Wed, 2014-04-09 at 09:54 -0400, Byron Jeff wrote:

> A statement ends at the end of the line. It's how the majority of code in
> any language is written. Python simply codes for the common case (one
> statement per line) and gives facilities for line continuation when neede=
d.

Except the continuation isn't explicit like it is in bash.  The
statement simply ends at the end of the line unless it doesn't.

In C the statement ends at the ;

In bash the statement ends at the end of the line unless the last
character is a \

In FORTRAN-60 the statement ends at the end of the line unless the next
line has a C in column 6

In COBOL the statement ends at the .

In Algol the statement ends at the ;

In Ada the statement ends at the ;

In Java the statement ends at the ;

In Pascal the statement ends at the ;

In Python, you just gotta guess.

--McD


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