On 4/28/14, 12:53, Simon Byrne wrote:
On Monday, 28 April 2014 17:06:37 UTC+1, Simon Byrne wrote:
My own perspective is that this is due to two reasons
1) `do` is the only (non-macro) construction that rewrites
expressions i.e.
open("outfile", "w") do f
write(f, data)
end
does not (directly at least) call the method `open("outfile", "w")`
Also, the fact that rewriting occurs due to a term that appears *after*
a completed expression I think adds to the confusion. Perhaps this would
be less confusing if some indicator had to appear before the `open`
statement. For example, we could have a macro:
@do open("outfile", "w") f begin
write(f, data)
end
Then we're almost to the python syntax:
with open("outfile", "w") as f:
f.write(data)
Jason
