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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