On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Teemu Likonen <tliko...@iki.fi> wrote: >> I'm a simple Lisp guy who wonders if it is be possible to add some kind >> of macros to the language. Then features like this could be added by >> anybody. Lisp people do this all the time and there is no need for >> feature requests or any discussions. >> >> (with-returns >> ;; some code >> (return-if foo) >> ;; more code >> (return-if bar)) > > Flow-control macros were suggested as part of PEP 343, but they were > rejected by Guido based on this rant: > > http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2005/01/06/347666.aspx
Sorry, that should have been PEP 340, which was rejected in favor of 343. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list