Nick Coghlan wrote: > Option 1: mimic try, for, while semantics > An 'else' clause on a block statement behaves like the else clause on > for and while loops, and on try/except statements - the clause is > executed only if the managed suite completes 'normally' (i.e. it is not > terminated early due to an exception, a break statement or a return > statement)
I've always thought that was a particularly unintuitive use of the word 'else', and I'm not sure I'd like it to be extended to any new statements. -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | A citizen of NewZealandCorp, a | Christchurch, New Zealand | wholly-owned subsidiary of USA Inc. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] +--------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
