python-dev Summary for 2005-04-16 through 2005-04-30

[Steven Bethard]

Ville Vainio wrote:
>>>>>>"Kay" == Kay Schluehr <kay.schluehr at gmx.net> writes:
> 
> 
>     Kay> but PEP 340 is already withdrawn by the BDFL. [1]
> 
>     Kay> There won't be any Ruby-like blocks because they hide control
>     Kay> flow.
> 
> Bummer. I would have greatly enjoyed seeing the only real reason for
> choosing Ruby over Python blown away...

If you're interested in why Guido doesn't want blocks with arbitrary 
control flow, you should check out:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-May/053702.html

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