On 6/10/05, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - throw() is a term taken from Java & C++. > > This was intended. There was much discussion about this for PEP 288 and > this was more or less a concensus choice. The term is already > associated with exceptions in other languages and it captures the > concept of the raise occurring somewhere else (what is thrown at or > into). It is simple, clear, and tends to suggest all the right things. > > I have no doubt that someone can point out differing semantics in other > languages but I don't care. The verbal cue is what we are after.
Cool. throw() it is. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
