Re: break LABEL vs. exceptions + PROPOSAL

2009-11-20 Thread Lo'oris
On Nov 18, 7:13 pm, Terry Reedy wrote: > It amounts to duplicating raise x...exception x as break xcontinue x > in the name of aesthetics and supposed efficiency. There would be no new > functionality nor any abbreviation of code. The semantics of there would be abbreviation: you wouldn't hav

Re: break LABEL vs. exceptions + PROPOSAL

2009-11-18 Thread Terry Reedy
Chris Rebert wrote: On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 4:05 AM, Lo'oris wrote: I've found this email, back from 10 years ago: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/1999-September/009983.html I guess it went unnoticed, because that proposal looks really intresting. I think it went unnoticed becau

Re: break LABEL vs. exceptions + PROPOSAL

2009-11-18 Thread Chris Rebert
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 4:05 AM, Lo'oris wrote: > I've found this email, back from 10 years ago: > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/1999-September/009983.html > > I guess it went unnoticed, because that proposal looks really > intresting. > > • break labels have been refused into pytho

break LABEL vs. exceptions + PROPOSAL

2009-11-18 Thread Lo'oris
I've found this email, back from 10 years ago: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/1999-September/009983.html I guess it went unnoticed, because that proposal looks really intresting. • break labels have been refused into python • we can do it anyway using exceptions • this is a proposal