Debugging (was Re: Why not allow empty code blocks?)

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Thu Aug 4 14:54:12 EDT 2016


On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 4:37 AM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> Making repeat a keyword would have such an extremely high cost
> that it is out of the question and not a sane proposal.
> To start with, it is used in two major, widely used APIs.
>
> itertools.repeat + 50 uses in other itertools and tests
> timeit.repeat() function  + tests

Ooh, time to break out the thesaurus!

rerun, rehash, reiterate [1], replicate, reproduce, recount, reprise,
retread, relive, vamp_till_ready

I'm sure we can come up with something!

ChrisA

[1] included mainly to troll the people who want some definition of "reiterable"



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