On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 00:43, Raymond Hettinger wrote: > Let me go on record as a strong -1 for "continue EXPR". The for-loop is > our most basic construct and is easily understood in its present form. > The same can be said for "continue" and "break" which have the added > advantage of a near zero learning curve for people migrating from other > languages. > > Any urge to complicate these basic statements should be seriously > scrutinized and held to high standards of clarity, explainability, > obviousness, usefulness, and necessity. IMO, it fails most of those > tests. > > I would not look forward to explaining "continue EXPR" in the tutorial > and think it would stand out as an anti-feature.
I'm sympathetic to this argument. I also find yield expressions jarring. I don't have any better suggestions though. -Barry
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