Guido van Rossum wrote: > I sometimes think it was > a mistake to introduce elif just to save typing "else if". > > The problem with the elwhile/elfor/eltry idea > is that you're just as likely to need e.g. > a "try" in the else clause of a while-loop as another while,
Here's an idea for Python 3000 which addresses both of these: Split 'elif' back up into 'else if', but also generalise it so that any 'else' can be followed by any suite-introducing statement. Then you get all possible combinations for free. Greg _______________________________________________ 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
