[Python-Dev] PEP 343 rewrite complete

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 08:46 PM 6/1/2005 +0200, Eric Nieuwland wrote:
>Nice going! But ...
>
>Could we extend the 'try' syntax for this instead of introducing
>'with'? If I look at the translation it an augmented 'try'.
>         with EXPR as VAR:
>                 BLOCK1
>         except EXCEPTION:
>                 BLOCK2
>could then be translated to

-1, too confusing.


>Can the 'throw()' method be renamed 'raise()'? IMHO that makes much
>clearer what happens.

No, 'raise' is a reserved word.  It would have to be 'raise_()'.  -0.


>Same thing with 'GeneratorExit', 'StopGeneration' more closely matches
>'StopIteration'.

StopIteration is raised the *other* way, so closely matching isn't really a 
benefit.  -1.