On 2016-05-21, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 5:26 AM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > >> Does anyone know of other languages that include the same feature? >> It's very rare for Python to innovate in language features. >> >> (I wonder if it came from ABC?) > > According to Raymond Hettinger starting at about 15:50 in this > video: > > http://pyvideo.org/video/1780/transforming-code-into-beautiful-idiomatic-pytho > > It was invented by Donald Knuth (including the choice of keyword).
If true, that alone dismisses with prejudice any question of changing it. As if backwards compatibility weren't a compelling enough argument. Besides which, I happen to think it makes sense the way it is. [I haven't been paying very close attention to this thread for a while, so I assume that "this feature" and "it" still refer to having an else clause in for/while loops?] I can't count the number of times I've wished C had such a feature, and have sometimes resorted to using a "goto" to get the same semantics in an easy to read/understand way. -- Grant -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
