The problem is that the older syntax had way more ad-hoc oddities than just the lack of parentheses. Having to support weirdo statements like `print "hello", "w

The problem is that the older syntax had way more ad-hoc oddities than just the lack of parentheses. Having to support weirdo statements like `print "hello", "world" >> sys.stderr` complicates the parser a lot and creates ambiguities, especially if you try to have it be both be this special-case statement and be a function object. Is `print >> obj` a print call with redirection to the file-like `obj`? Or is it a operator call between those objects? What does `f = print` do, assign the function object or the result of calling print with no arguments?