On 7/7/05, François Pinard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Guido van Rossum] > > > I even wonder if else-clauses on for/while were a good idea. > > I surely find them useful, and see them as a Python originality (a > welcome one).
They are indeed an original invention. (One day I looked at the similarity between if and while and noticed that there was a use case for else after while too.) The question remains whether Python would be easier to learn without them. And if so, the question would remain whether that's offset by their utility for experienced developers. All hard to assess impartially! -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
