The limited whitespace-based syntax limits the potential for fun inline statement things, but it also completely dodges the question of what any particular statement should evaluate to when used as an expression.
Yes, I guess something like that. That was just meant as an example of how existing Python allows you to write loops on one line. It's not a good example for a meaningful comprehension in our alternative made-up Python dialect.
> The limited whitespace-based syntax limits the potential for fun inline statement things, [...]
Python already mostly allows you to use parens to override the indentation. They would just need to generalise that a bit. Btw, Haskell already does that:
Officially, Haskell has a syntax with curly braces and semicolons; and they define the indentation based syntax as syntactic sugar that desugars to ; and {}. But almost everyone uses indentation based syntax. The exception are perhaps code generators and when posting on a website that messes with indentation.
(And, because it's Haskell, the {}; syntax is just another layer of syntactic sugar for 'weird-operator'-based based syntax like >>=.)
The limited whitespace-based syntax limits the potential for fun inline statement things, but it also completely dodges the question of what any particular statement should evaluate to when used as an expression.