Ian Kelly wrote:
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Erik Max Francis <m...@alcyone.com> wrote:
Neither makes sense. `break` exits out of looping structures, which the
top-level code of a module most certainly is not.
Why does that matter? It seems a bit like arguing that the `in`
keyword can't be used for membership testing, because it's already in
use in the for-loop syntax. It wouldn't be the first time Python has
reused a keyword.
True. So let's use `in` to represent breaking out of the top-level code
of a module. Why not, it's not the first time a keyword has been
reused, right?
The point is, if it's not obvious already from that facetious proposal,
it's not a good idea to reuse keywords that really read very differently
than their original use. Reusing `break` (or `return`) this way would
be rather abusive.
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