Re: [Python-Dev] while:

2005-07-21 Thread Ruslan Spivak
В Срд, 20/07/2005 в 21:58 -0300, Facundo Batista пишет: > On 7/20/05, Martin Blais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Well, maybe you're reading a bit too litterally into that statement. > > To me the expression is very explicitly absent :-)More seriously, > > reading into these rules too litera

Re: [Python-Dev] while:

2005-07-21 Thread Gareth McCaughan
On Thursday 2005-07-21 01:22, Martin Blais wrote: > The Rule of Least Surprise says to me that "while:" would do the least > unexpected thing. There are only two possibilities: the test is > implicitly false, in which case "while:" would make no sense (i.e. the > block would be ignored). Therefo

Re: [Python-Dev] while:

2005-07-20 Thread Facundo Batista
On 7/20/05, Martin Blais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, maybe you're reading a bit too litterally into that statement. > To me the expression is very explicitly absent :-)More seriously, > reading into these rules too literally leads to funny places: I could > ask why at the end of functio

Re: [Python-Dev] while:

2005-07-20 Thread Martin Blais
On 7/20/05, Facundo Batista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/20/05, Martin Blais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > it got me wondering, wouldn't it be nice if > > > >while: > > ... > > > > behaved as: > > > >while True: > > -1 > > Explicit is better than implicit. Well, maybe you'

Re: [Python-Dev] while:

2005-07-19 Thread Facundo Batista
On 7/20/05, Martin Blais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it got me wondering, wouldn't it be nice if > >while: > ... > > behaved as: > >while True: -1 Explicit is better than implicit. Regards, .Facundo Blog: http://www.taniquetil.com.ar/plog/ PyAr: http://www.python.org/ar/

Re: [Python-Dev] while:

2005-07-19 Thread Manuel Amador
El mié, 20-07-2005 a las 13:26 +1000, Anthony Baxter escribió: > On Wednesday 20 July 2005 13:13, Martin Blais wrote: > > it got me wondering, wouldn't it be nice if > > > >while: > > ... > > > > behaved as: > > > >while True: > > ... > > -1 > > I don't expect if: or for: to m

Re: [Python-Dev] while:

2005-07-19 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Wednesday 20 July 2005 13:13, Martin Blais wrote: > it got me wondering, wouldn't it be nice if > >while: > ... > > behaved as: > >while True: > ... -1 I don't expect if: or for: to mean anything, so why should while: ? I don't see any advantages to it (saving 5 keypresses?

[Python-Dev] while:

2005-07-19 Thread Martin Blais
Hi Today I typed something funny in the interactive interpreter: >>> while: File "", line 1 while: ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax it got me wondering, wouldn't it be nice if while: ... behaved as: while True: ... Since they appeared, I started using "while T