Martin v. Löwis wrote: > I still don't understand why the "no operation" statement is called > "pass" - it's not the opposite of "fail", and seems to have no > relationship to "can you pass me the butter, please?".
It's "pass" as in "pass through", i.e. move on to the next statement without stopping to do anything. Also there's an idiom that you hear in a setting such as a quiz show, where a contestant will say "Pass", meaning "I don't know the answer to that, give me the next question." -- Greg _______________________________________________ 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
