Guido van Rossum wrote:
And surely you exaggerate. How about this then:
The with-statement is similar to the for-loop. Until you've
learned about the differences in detail, the only time you should
write a with-statement is when the documentation for the function
you are calling says you should.
I think perhaps I'm not expressing myself very well.
What I'm after is a high-level explanation that actually
tells people something useful, and *doesn't* cop out by
just saying "you're not experienced enough to understand
this yet".
If such an explanation can't be found, I strongly suspect
that this doesn't correspond to a cohesive enough concept
to be made into a built-in language feature. If you can't
give a short, understandable explanation of it, then it's
probably a bad idea.
Greg
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