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On 26/08/2024 22:35, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Aug 2024 08:33:30 -0700, John Ames wrote:
> 
>> ... the simple fact that Guido & co. made a boneheaded choice like that
>> is the reason I'll never be able to *respect* it, even when I do find
>> myself using it.
> 
> I restore the redundancy by using “#end” comments. E.g. a seriously
> nontrivial case:

This might the human reader but the redundancy really needs to be 
supported by the language.

Here, that s2 line has been knocked out of place; the indent is missing. 
But the language can't detect it, even with #end; it makes s2 unconditional:

     if c:
         s1
     s2
     #end

With language support:

     if c:
         s1
     s2
     end

Here the redundancy means the compiler knows both s1 and s2 are in the 
same conditional block, and it can choose to report an indentation 
inconsistency.