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No, I mean a lot of consideration was given in developing the Perl 6 VM to support Python. I would not be entirely surprised to someday see:
use Python;
use Braces;
... although doing it on a per-block basis would be nicer. Preferably within an object which can register a general python exception handler, or just generally handles exceptions. I'm really not into the way python throws exceptions at the drop of a hat.
This ``newline-is-sometimes-semicolon'' is the worst trend in programming languages today. Io has it. Go has it. Perl 6 has it. BitC has it (in the current unpublished(?) spec, provisionally--but still.) By far Go has it the worst. It's hard to complain about in Io; in Io it's more of a ``semicolon-can-be-substituted-for-newline''. It does nothing for readability, and saving keystrokes is a laugh; semicolons are unchorded and working around the ambiguities that arise (languages tend to prefer the newline-as-semicolon interpretation wherever possible) is far more costly.