for-else

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On Mar 5, 6:40 pm, bearophileH... at lycos.com wrote:
> Troels Thomsen:
>
> > The discussion of words is silly. My surprise about "else following a for
> > loop.... what the heck ...." lasted excactly as long as it takes to read
> > this sentence.
>
> Maybe I don't follow what you are saying, but well chosen words are a
> very important part of a well designed API. If you take a look at the
> Python developers mailing list you may see that people discuss days,
> weeks to find the best naming for things.

They should've called it "or-else".  Bor hor hor.  ...The keyword, I
mean.