In article <gt0d15$167...@adenine.netfront.net>,
namekuseijin <namekuseijin.nos...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>I don't like *for* at all. It both makes it tough to get true closures
>and also unnecessarily pollutes the namespace with non-local variables.
Maybe. Consider this standard Python idiom:
for x in L:
if x == criterion:
break
doSomething(x)
Obviously, this case could be rewritten fairly easily to hoist
doSomething into the loop before the break, but I've seen other cases
less amenable.
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