[Python-Dev] Wishlist: dowhile

Mon Jun 13 04:39:11 CEST 2005

Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> More than case-statement semantics or PEP343, I wish for a dowhile
> statement.
> 
> The most straight-forward way is to put the conditional expression at
> the beginning of the block with the understanding that a dowhile keyword
> will evaluate the condition only after the block runs

Out-of-order code execution rarely counts as 'straightforward' ;)

With PEP 315, a do-while loop would look like:

   do:
       <body>
   while <cond>:
       pass

But then, I'm reasonably happy with the 'break out of an infinite 
loop' approach, so *shrug*.

Cheers,
Nick.

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