On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 8:32 AM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 10:49 PM, Jon Ribbens <jon+use...@unequivocal.eu> > wrote: >> On 2017-11-03, Steve D'Aprano <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >>> On Fri, 3 Nov 2017 03:31 am, Jon Ribbens wrote: >>>> No, it's an obvious bug. You have a 'for...else' with no 'break'. >>>> Like I said, that should probably be a syntax error. >>> >>> It should absolutely not be a syntax error. There's no reason for it >>> to be a syntax error, except to satisfy some arrogant and foolish >>> idea of purity. >> >> It'd be nice if you could be a little less rude. It's not an "arrogant >> and foolish idea of purity", it's to help people catch bugs in their >> code, and to aid their understanding of the language. > > That wasn't rudeness. That was an accurate description of the > situation. It is entirely possible for code to be opinionated, > arrogant, foolish, and all those other adjectives that we normally > appropriate to people.
Steve was clearly referring to the coder, not the code. Please stop defending the use of incivility on this list. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
