Why is "while" ticking me off???

[Greg Ewing]

Huaiyu Zhu wrote:
> 
> if a = dict1[k1]; a:
>     a.do_something_interesting()

I don't like that as it stands; it's too hard to read.

It could perhaps be improved:


   if a where a = dict1[k1]:
      a.do_something_interesting()

except that then the evaluation order is different
from the reading order.

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