On Sun, May 12, 2019, 5:36 PM Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 12 May 2019 at 21:06, David Mertz <me...@gnosis.cx> wrote: > > I thought of 'as' initially, and it reads well as English. But it felt > to me like the meaning was too different from the other meanings of 'as' in > Python. I might be persuaded otherwise. > > If you think in terms of "named loops" rather than "labels", "as" > makes a lot more sense. Every name created with 'as' currently is a regular Python object, with a memory address, and some methods, that can participate in comparison (at least equality), that has a type, can be passed as a function argument, etc. Actually, all that is true of EVERY name in Python other than keywords. It seems like none of this would be true of a loop name/label. Hence my first thought that a different way of introducing the word is more clear... Maybe we can just prefix lines with labels instead, and add a 'goto' command :-)
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