On 01/28/10 19:37, Paul Rubin wrote: > Jonathan Gardner <jgard...@jonathangardner.net> writes: >> If you're going to have statements, you're going to need the null >> statement. That's "pass". > > Why? Expressions are statements, so you could just say "pass" (in > quotes, denoting a string literal), or 0, or None, os anything else like > that, instead of having a special statement.
or, if the null statement "pass" is removed, you could define: pass = None or pass = object() # sentinel and have essentially the same thing. hmm... on second thought, not special-casing pass means doing a LOAD_GLOBAL or LOAD_CONST for operation that is supposed to be doing nothing. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
