defining classes within loops?

David Bolen db3l at fitlinxx.com
Fri Jul 27 17:50:15 EDT 2001


Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> writes:

> The documentation for the "continue" statement says:
> 
> > continue may only occur syntactically nested in a for or while loop,
> > but not nested in a function or class definition
> 
> Just out of curiosity, how many people have ever written a function or 
> class definition nested inside a loop?  Seems like sort of a strange thing 
> to do, although I suppose it might be useful in some situations.

I personally haven't, but the function definition method would
certainly fit in with some of the threads about using a named function
close to invocation instead of lambda.

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