why no "do : until"?

Jaap Spies j.spies at hccnet.nl
Thu Jan 4 18:42:02 EST 2001


A.M. Kuchling wrote:

> On 4 Jan 2001 17:48:04 GMT, Donn Cave <donn at u.washington.edu> wrote:
> 
>> ... hardly a
>> day will pass when there isn't someone isn't pushing another syntactic
>> change to the language, but none of it is going anywhere.
> 
> 
> Yes.  I've argued in the past that we should just leave Python's
> syntax alone; all the proposed changes usually add 1% more
> functionality and aren't worth the pain.  Leave fancy changes to the
> hypothetical Python3K or some other future descendent of Python, and
> just work on the infrastructure around the language.
> 
> --amk

Whow, I agree!

Jaap Spies




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