seeking deeper (language theory) reason behind Python design choice
Marko Rauhamaa
marko at pacujo.net
Fri May 11 08:34:18 EDT 2018
Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com>:
> On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 7:10 PM, Gregory Ewing
> <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>> I suggest adding a new builtin constant:
>>
>> YouFeelLikeIt = True
>>
>> Then all pseudo-infinite loops can be written
>>
>> while YouFeelLikeIt:
>> ...
>>
>
> Personally, I prefer to use string literals.
>
> while "you feel like it":
> ...
I still think my use of the Ellipsis speaks more to the maintainer of
the code:
while ...:
pass
Marko
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