[Jim Jewett] > > 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.
[Greg Ewing] > 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. Yes please. Stop all discussion of breaking out of multiple loops. It ain't gonna happen before my retirement. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
