Also, let me be clear that this feature will never be added to the language.
On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 07:36 Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 03:22 Jonathan Fine <jfine2...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> This is a continuation of my previous post to this thread. >> >> Python's FOR ... ELSE ... , Raymond Hettinger has told us, has origins in >> some ideas of Don Knuth. >> > > That’s news to me (both that it’s due to Knuth and that Raymond said so). > I invented it without awareness of prior art, by reasoning about the > similarity between IF and WHILE (FOR followed from WHILE). > > —Guido > -- > --Guido (mobile) > -- --Guido (mobile)
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