[ Senra ]:
> > [ Guido ]:
> > > 1. Decide on a keyword to use, if any.
> >
> > Shouldn't be the other way around ?
> > Decide to use *no* keyword, if that could be avoided.
[ Reinhold ]:
> There is one problem with using no keyword: You cannot use arbitrary
> expressions
> in the new statement. Consider:
>
> resource = opening("file.txt")
> block resource:
> (...)
>
> resource = opening("file.txt")
> resource:
> (...)
>
> The latter would have to be forbidden.
I'm not quite sure why, but there seem to be a
workaround (forseen in PEP 340). And people seem
to be "using" this already <0.5 wink>:
[Alex Martelli]:
> for name in filenames:
> opening(name) as f:
> if f.read(2) == 0xFEB0: break
Moreover, an anonymous block should have
no <<name>> (neither 'block', 'with', 'using')
to be true anonymous <1.0-Tim-Peter'ly wink>
cheers,
Senra
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