On 4/8/06, Ronald Oussoren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 8-apr-2006, at 5:44, Guido van Rossum wrote: > > > On 4/7/06, Crutcher Dunnavant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Basic idea: > >> > >> [for ... in ...]+ if ...: > >> body > >> > >> A) it should be syntatically simple to parse. > >> B) it establishes a nice symetry with list comprehensions. > > > > Are you in cahoots with the person who posted the first response to my > > Artima blog on today? :-) > > (http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=106&thread=155514) > > > > I can't make heads or tails of this. What is it supposed to do? What > > is it supposed to replace? > > My guess is that he doesn't get generic/overloaded/extensible functions > and proposes a way to extend function bodies through some very odd > syntax. > > foo = if x: > print "x!" > > foo += elif y: > print "y!" > > would probably be get you a function like this: > > def foo(): > if x: > print "x!" > elif y: > print "y!" > > I'd say this wouldn't be an improvement to python ;-)
Perhaps Guido's poster is suggesting this, but I'm not. I don't want assignment from loops, I just want the same semantics we get in list comps in the for ... if ... section. > > > > -- > > --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) > > _______________________________________________ > > Python-3000 mailing list > > Python-3000@python.org > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 > > Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/ > > ronaldoussoren%40mac.com > > -- Crutcher Dunnavant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> littlelanguages.com monket.samedi-studios.com _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
