"Steven Bethard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2/21/06, Josiah Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The question which still remains in my mind, which I previously asked, > > is whether the use cases are compelling enough to warrant the feature > > addition. > > I don't know whether I support the proposal or not, but in reading > Mark Russel's email, I realized that I just recently ran into a use > case:
[snip example where 3 lines are duplicated twice, and a 2 line subset are duplicated in a third location] > using something > like ``curr_suffix :=`` or Phillip J. Eby's suggestion of > ``.curr_suffix =`` would allow this code to be factored out into a > function. In this particular example, there is no net reduction in line use. The execution speed of your algorithm would be reduced due to function calling overhead. There may be a minor clarification improvement, but arguably no better than the Richie Hindle's functional goto implementation for Python 2.3 and later. - Josiah _______________________________________________ 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
