On Tuesday, December 3, 2019 at 7:54:03 PM UTC-5, Jan Bakuwel wrote: > > Hi Guido, > > On 4/12/19 1:06 pm, Guido van Rossum wrote: > > I was playing the devil's advocate in jest. There is no way this will > > be added to Python, for a large variety of sociological and software > > engineering reasons. While some of the responses may to you seem like > > they come from inexperienced people who have not carefully read your > > argument, consider that to us, your proposal appears to come from yet > > another person who is relatively new to Python asking for their > > favorite feature from language X without understanding how that > > feature would interact with the rest of Python. > > I was not implying at all that any response was from inexperienced > people. However no-one, at least not in a way clear to me, responded to > the value of the suggestion to get early warnings (ie. at parse time) > when an "end while" is written where an "end if" should have been written. >
I can see how you would find it useful, and I can also see why you're getting a lot of opposition. One compromise suggestion is to take Andrew's advice and add your own # end for's. Then take Serhiy's advice and add the check to a linter. After you've been coding like this for a while, start your movement to popularize "# end for" :) > > While I like Python a lot, I do miss the support of advanced compilers > that tell me at compile time where I made a typo or logic error so I > find myself spending relatively more time debugging at runtime. Not a > worry as Python easily makes up for the lost time for 1000+ reasons. I'm > just thinking aloud how it could, in my eyes, be even better while also > considering the sociological and software engineering impact on the > Python community to the best of my abilities. > > I appreciate that I have much less experience with Python than many of > the folks on the list here. So please help me understand how the > suggested feature would, in any way, unfavorably interact with the rest > of Python as you say. > > cheers, > > Jan > > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python...@python.org <javascript:> > To unsubscribe send an email to python-id...@python.org <javascript:> > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/WH4TOP57AZSMRQG26YRWHDMDBEXV5WQV/ > > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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