[Python-Dev] PEP 343 - next steps

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 01:23 PM 6/10/2005 -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>- throw() is a term taken from Java & C++. We can't call the method
>raise() -- but perhaps we can call it next_raising() or next_raise(),
>which emphasizes the similarity with next(). Thoughts? I'm not strong
>on this; I think throw() is fine too, especially since I expect that
>it will be used explicitly extremely rarely -- the only customer is
>the with_template decorator.

I'm fine with throw, but if you really want to get 'raise' in there, how 
about 'raise_exc' or 'raise_exc_info'?


>The issue is: if we allow VAR to be a
>comma-separated list of variables now, that cuts off the extension to
>(a) in the future; so the PEP would have to be amended to state that
>VAR must be a single variable or a list of variables IN PARENTHESES.
>Thoughts?

Parentheses would make it clearer what's going on, so I'd be fine with that.