Looping constructs

Courageous jkraska at san.rr.com
Sun Dec 23 13:35:01 EST 2001


On Sun, 23 Dec 2001 13:53:02 +0100, "Janos Blazi" <jblazi at hotmail.com> wrote:

>There is one thing I envy Perl programmers: they have several nice looping
>constructs and Python has almost none. For exmaple redo unless can be nice
>sometimes and they have several others. What do you think about adding such
>contructs to Python?

The fewer loop forms to choose from, the more comprensible
the code is to a stranger who has never seen it. Such is
a mantra of the zen of python.

Comparing Python to Perl. For shame. Perl is a write only
language.

C//




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