Concrete Proposal: while ... and while ...

[Magnus L. Hetland]

cwebster at math.tamu.edu (Corran Webster) writes:

> Last night, after reading the latest assignment in expressions thread, I
> went and hacked together a patch which implements the proposed
> 
> while:
>   ...
> and while test:
>   ...

I thought the Guido-approved version had a condition on the first as
well (i.e. an expansion of the standard while loop)?

Thus:

while 1:
  ...
and while something:
  ...

Of course, that doesn't remove the ugliness of the "while 1" but it
does alleviate the use of "break". I guess your suggestion actually
adds the syntax of "while:" for "while 1:" as well -- or is it only in
the use with "and while" that it is permitted?
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