[Python-Dev] PEP 340: Breaking out.

Steven Bethard steven.bethard at gmail.com
Thu May 5 23:34:38 CEST 2005


On 5/5/05, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> And does your proposal allow for "continue EXPR" as supported by PEP
> 340? I can't see that it could, given that your proposal treats block
> statements as not being loops.

Read PEP 340 again -- the "continue EXPR" syntax is orthogonal to the
discussion -- PEP 340 adds it for *all* for loops, so for loops with
the non-looping block statements would also be able to use it.

> The looping behaviour is a (fairly nasty) wart, but I'm not sure I
> would insist on removing it at the cost of damaging other features I
> like.

I don't think it "damages" any features.  Are there features you still
think the non-looping proposal removes?  (I'm not counting orthogonal
feautres like "continue EXPR" which could easily be added as an
entirely separate PEP.)

STeVe
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