Nick Coghlan wrote:
>Hans Polak wrote:
>
>
>>Ok, I see your point. Really, I've read more about Python than worked with
>>it, so I'm out of my league here.
>>
>>Can I combine your suggestion with mine and come up with the following:
>>
>> do:
>> <setup code>
>> <loop body>
>> while <condition>
>> else:
>> <loop completion code>
>>
>>
>
>In my example, the 3 sections (<setup code>, <loop body> and <loop completion
>code> are all optional. A basic do-while loop would look like this:
>
> do:
> <setup code>
> while <condition>
>
>(That is, <setup code> is still repeated each time around the loop - it's
>called that because it is run before the loop evaluated condition is evaluated)
>
>
+1
This looks good.
The current idiom works fine, but looks unnatural :
while True:
if <condition>:
break
Would a 'while' outside of a 'do' block (but without the colon) then be
a syntax error ?
'do:' would just be syntactic sugar for 'while True:' I guess.
Michael Foord
http://www.voidspace.org.uk
>Cheers,
>Nick.
>
>
>
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