On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 3:25 PM, Stefan Ram <r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Jon Ribbens <jon+use...@unequivocal.eu> writes: >>No, it's an obvious bug. You have a 'for...else' with no 'break'. >>Like I said, that should probably be a syntax error. > > It should make the syntax of Python much more complicated, > when one would try to encode this rule in the /syntax/. > > (Just try to write down the EBNF.) > > It would be more reasonable to call it a constraint. > Maybe it could still be a parser error (not a runtime > error).
Regardless of whether it's encoded in the EBNF or a constraint on the resulting parse tree, the eventual outcome would still be called a syntax error. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
