Re: Python-list Digest, Vol 169, Issue 23

2017-10-13 Thread Steve D'Aprano
Hi Roger, Unfortunately you seem to have messed up the quoting (*and* the subject line, and the threading) for this post. The perils of replying to digests. I'll try to repair the worst of the misquoted text as I go, but if I accidentally attribute something I said to you, well, that's only becau

Re: Python-list Digest, Vol 169, Issue 23

2017-10-12 Thread ROGER GRAYDON CHRISTMAN
The opinions I give in this post are not as strong as the opinions I expressed before about the loop claiming to count all the way to 2**64. But I'll give them anyway. I don't mind having return's inside an if statement, when the function ends with that if statement. It becomes very clear then

Re: Python-list Digest, Vol 169, Issue 23

2017-10-12 Thread ROGER GRAYDON CHRISTMAN
On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 08:05 AM, Steve D'Aprano wrote:> On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 10:57 pm, Stefan Ram wrote: > >> FWIW, in is book "Touch of Class" (2009) Bertrand >Meyer writes: >> >> |Such instructions are just the old goto in sheep's clothing. >> |Treat them the same way as the original: >> | >> |/To