while true: !!!

[Oldayz]

On Fri, 15 Dec 2000 14:08:15 +0100, Alex Martelli <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote:
>"Greg Ewing" <greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote in message
>news:3A397C74.6C8906E1 at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz...
>> Oldayz wrote:
>> >
>> > I thought something like forever: would be even more lucid
>>
>> If there is a break in the loop somewhere, it's
>> not really forever, though, is it?
>>
>> So perhaps it should *really* be
>>
>>    for a while:
>>       ...
>>
>> :-)
>
>Why not have a 'built-in constant' it_lasts, of value 1,
>so we can write:
>
>    while it_lasts:
>        ...
>
>This requires no change to existing Python syntax.  For
>the incurable romantics, besides allowing a 'for' statement
>form with a single parameter so cynics can write
>
>    for awhile:
>        ...
>
>and romantics can write:
>
>    for ever:
>        ...
>
>we should also introduce an 'until' statement, and a
>death_do_us_part built-in constant, of course.
>
>
>Alex

Ideally, to beat perl at its own game, we
should be able to write poems in python, i.e.:

quoth(the_raven):
	nevermore

I don't know what this block would do, though :/
Print 'nevermore' in caps?

-- 

	Andrei