PEP 317: Eliminate Implicit Exception Instantiation

[Aahz]

In article <l1brx7dk9h.fsf at budvar.future-i.net>,
Ed Avis  <ed at membled.com> wrote:
>
>Why not go further and make it look like a normal function call, that
>can take zero one or two arguments?
>
>    raise_stmt ::= "raise" "(" [expression ["," expression]] ")"
>
>No arguments - raise() - would re-raise the currently active
>exception, and so on.

Well, that would essentially make it no longer a statement.  raise
pretty much needs to remain a statement to fit in with the try/except
control structure.
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