for -- else: what was the motivation?

[Robert Latest]

Grant Edwards wrote:
> I've followed that advice for several decades. I find it much easier
> to read code that's organized that way -- particularly when the
> difference in block sizes is large (e.g. the first block is one line,
> and the second is a a hundred).

If any conditionally executed blocks is a hundred lines, I believe your code
needs refactoring. I know mine does. Either the long block should go into an
extra function, or you do a "fail and bail" (just learned that phrase).