Fuzzyman wrote:
> Nick Coghlan wrote:
>> 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.
I'm pretty sure it was proposed by someone else a long time ago - I was
surprised to find it wasn't mentioned in PEP 315.
That said, Guido's observation on PEP 315 from earlier this year holds for me
too:
"I kind of like it but it doesn't strike me as super important" [1]
> The current idiom works fine, but looks unnatural :
>
> while True:
> if <condition>:
> break
There's the rationale for the PEP in a whole 5 lines counting whitespace ;)
> 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.
That's the slight issue I still have with the idea - you could end up with
multiple ways of spelling some of the basic loop forms, such as these 3
flavours of infinite loop:
do:
pass # Is there an implicit 'while True' at the end of the loop body?
do:
while True
while True:
pass
The other issue I have is that I'm not yet 100% certain it's implementable
with Python's parser and grammar. I *think* changing the definition of the
while statement from:
while_stmt ::=
"while" expression ":" suite
["else" ":" suite]
to
while_stmt ::=
"while" expression [":" suite
["else" ":" suite]]
And adding a new AST node and a new type of compiler frame block "DO_LOOP"
would do the trick (the compilation of a while statement without a trailing
colon would then check that it was in a DO_LOOP block and raise an error if
not).
Cheers,
Nick.
[1]
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-February/060711.html
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