Nick Coghlan wrote: > Guido van Rossum wrote: > [snip] >> - I think there's a better word than Flow, but I'll keep using it >> until we find something better. > > How about simply reusing Iteration (ala StopIteration)? > > Pass in 'ContinueIteration' for 'continue' > Pass in 'BreakIteration' for 'break' > Pass in 'AbortIteration' for 'return' and finalisation. > > And advise strongly *against* intercepting AbortIteration with anything other > than a finally block.
Hmmm... another idea: If break and continue return keep exactly the current semantics (break or continue the innermost for/while-loop), do we need different exceptions at all? AFAICS AbortIteration (+1 on the name) would be sufficient for all three interrupting statements, and this would prevent misuse too, I think. yours, Reinhold -- Mail address is perfectly valid! _______________________________________________ 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
