Jim Jewett wrote: > In case it isn't clear, I think named loops would be a mistake. I > wanted them when I first started, but ... at the moment, I can't > think of any usage that wasn't an ugly speed hack, which is at > least more explicit with the "raise Found" idiom.
I'm inclined to agree. Anything more elaborate than breaking from a single place in the immediately enclosing loop tends to be getting into the realm of spaghetti, in my experience. Giving people named loops would be tantamount almost to giving them a goto. -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | A citizen of NewZealandCorp, a | Christchurch, New Zealand | wholly-owned subsidiary of USA Inc. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] +--------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ 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
