PEP 317: Eliminate Implicit Exception Instantiation

[Gerrit Holl]

Ed Avis wrote:
> Steven Taschuk <staschuk at telusplanet.net> writes:
> >    raise_stmt ::= "raise" [expression ["," expression]]
> 
> 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.

Maybe raise could even be made a builtin-function instead of a statement?
I think there should be as few statements as possible.
Or would it be impossible because of Python's internals? I know
nothing about them...

yours,
Gerrit.

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