Ryan Barrett wrote: <snip>

incidentally - and this is *way* off-topic - python's control flow is defined by indentation. iirc, it works just like you'd want.

however, i should offer the disclaimer that that's pretty much all i know about python, other than the fact that ESR likes it: <snip>

Some people would consider the ESR association a flaw, but that's going way off-topic. However, I do know about Python and would recommend pretty much all programmers to have a look at it.