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
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
