PEP 315: Enhanced While Loop

Gareth McCaughan Gareth.McCaughan at pobox.com
Mon May 5 16:12:50 EDT 2003


Andrew Koenig wrote:

> This is obviously intended to be tongue-in-cheek.  However, it does give
> me a thought about how to express this notion in a way that is much clearer
> and requires no new keywords:
> 
>         while:
>             <setup code>
>         and while <condition>:
>             <loop body>
[etc]

This is very elegant. It's a pity that it doesn't work well
for the special case of a "do...while" loop, though.

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