Pythonically-expressed nested-loop break?
Tim Hammerquist
tim at vegeta.ath.cx
Mon Jan 14 23:11:34 EST 2002
Delaney, Timothy <tdelaney at avaya.com> graced us by uttering:
[ snip q re. nested while loops ]
> Additionally IM(NS)HO, it is incredibly ugly.
Definitely. It's also worth noting that Perl's use of labels makes this
incredibly ugly construct possible. IM(NS)HO, Python's lack thereof is a
Good Thing (TM).
> I mean *really*
> *really* ugly. It's kind of like comparing it to space. Space is
> big ... (see HHGTTG for the rest).
... You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly ugly
it is. I mean, you may think it's a Bad Thing (TM) to have goto(),
but that's just peanuts to nested this programming construct.
Listen ...
Tim Hammerquist
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