while expression feature proposal
Evan Driscoll
driscoll at cs.wisc.edu
Wed Oct 24 19:19:54 EDT 2012
On 10/24/2012 05:26 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> But I'm still -0 on it, because it supplants the glaringly obvious:
>
> m = ...
>
> assignment with the far less in your face:
>
> possibly-long-expr as m
>
> and I think it would get quite heavily used, to the detriment of
> assignment readability in general. At present the nature of most effects
> is at the left. An assignment is obvious on the left, an if/with/while/etc
> is visible at the left.
In the interest of brainstorming, what about
while VAR from EXPR:
or something like that? I don't think I like 'from' on a couple counts,
but there's probably some word that fits.
Evan
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