Why not allow empty code blocks?

[BartC]

On 29/07/2016 20:43, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 7/29/2016 4:58 AM, Antoon Pardon wrote:

>> Something like.
>>
>> try:
>>    Some code
>> except Some_Exception:
>>    # Commented code for when I am debugging <Some code>
>>    pass
>
> So put in 'pass' whether or not there is no debugging code,
> commented-out debugging code, or debugging code that runs, or whatever.

But that's inelegant.

The language requires that blocks always contains 1 or more statements. 
Fair enough, except that 0 statements are often needed so that a dummy 
statement - 'pass' - is required just to keep the code legal.

That's untidy, as is your suggestion to keep the dummy statement lying 
around anyway so that the number of statements will always be N+1 and 
can never reach 0 as N changes.


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Bartc