On Thu, 2 Nov 2017 08:21 am, Chris Angelico wrote: > With the 'for' loop, > it's a bit more arguable, but I've never seen anything more than a > weak argument in favour of 'then'
Thhpptpt! "else" is an completely inappropriate term that doesn't describe the semantics of the statement even a little bit. The argument that it means "else no break" is feeble because break is not the only way to exit the loop and therefore skip executing the else clause. It is not even necessarily the most common: I wouldn't be surprised if there were more returns out of the middle of a loop than breaks, although I wouldn't necessarily predict it either. If we spoke in ordinary English using "else" the way Python uses it for looping, we would say: "Shampoo your hair twice, ELSE apply conditioner and leave for five minutes before rinsing." "Boil the pasta until it is soft, ELSE drain it and mix in the sauce." -- Steve “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
