Syntax:
fwhile X in ListY and conditionZ: The following would actually exactly as: for X in ListY: fwhile X in ListY and True: fwhile would act much like 'for', but would stop if the condition after the 'and' is no longer True. The motivation is to be able to make use of all the great aspects of the python 'for' (no indexing or explict end condition check, etc.) and at the same time avoiding a 'break' from the 'for'. (NOTE: Many people are being taught to avoid 'break' and 'continue' at all costs, so they instead convert the clean 'for' into a less-clean 'while'. Or they just let the 'for' run out. You can argue against this teaching (at least for Python) but that doesn't mean it's not prevalent and prevailing.) [People who avoid the 'break' by functionalizing an inner portion of the loop are just kidding themselves and making their own code worse, IMO.] I'm not super familiar with CPython, but I'm pretty sure I could get this up and working without too much effort. The mandatory 'and' makes sense because 'or' would hold the end value valid (weird) and not accomplish much. The condition itself could of course have multiple parts to it, including 'or's. It's possible the name 'fwhile' is not optimal, but that shouldn't affect the overall merit/non-merit of the concept. Comments and Questions welcome. Thanks.
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