Ka-Ping Yee wrote:
> On Wed, 4 May 2005, Shane Hathaway wrote:
>>
>> for name in filenames:
>> opening(name) as f:
>> if f.read(2) == 0xFEB0:
>> break for
>
>
> This is very elegant.
Thanks.
> It works beautifully with "break", though at
> first that natural analogs "continue for", "continue while" appear to
> conflict with Guido's proposed extension to "continue".
>
> But if we choose the keyword "with" to introduce an anonymous block,
> it comes out rather nicely:
>
> continue with 2
>
> That's easier to read than "continue 2", in my opinion. (If it's not
> too cute for you.)
Or perhaps:
continue yield 2
This would create some symmetry, since generators will retrieve the
value passed by a continue statement using a yield expression.
Shane
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