Brian Sabbey wrote:
do f in with_file('file.txt'):
print f.read()
I don't like this syntax. Try to read it as an English sentence:
"Do f in with file 'file.txt'". Say what???
To sound right it would have to be something like
with_file('file.txt') as f do:
print f.read()
But, while that works with this particular function
name, and others of the form "with_xxx", there are
bound to be other use cases which would require
different words or word orders in order not to sound
contrived.
It's very difficult to come up with a good syntax for
this that isn't skewed towards one kind of use case.
That's probably a large part of the reason why nothing
like it has so far been seriously considered for
adoption.
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Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg
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