how about take a page from haskell style syntax, which allows both inferring the block structure from indentation, but also always it to be explicitly denoted at well?
Also, whitespace based indentation works in Python because Python statements tend to be fairly short. (The python indentation rules are easily understood.) Haskell layout has been somewhat more difficult to understand (at least for me). I have been writing Haskell code and usually it works, but there have been problems due to failure to indent when I should'v, which were incredibly confusing to debug.
In python, it's hard to fuck it up: after a colon, you always newline and indent.
But what about:
if True: print "Yep"
if True: print("Yep")
Some features of Python are only really meant to be used at interactive prompts, like import STAR ( I can't write star?)
virtual const std::string& getCommand() const throw() { return m_command ; }
For example, I recently needed to do some Run-Length Encoding:
import Control.Arrow
import Data.List
encodeRLE :: (Eq a) => [a] -> [(Int, a)]
encodeRLE = map (length &&& head) . group
decodeRLE :: [(Int, a)] -> [a]
decodeRLE = concatMap (uncurry replicate)