At 08:21 PM 4/29/05 -0500, Ka-Ping Yee wrote:
All the statements in Python are associated with keywords, except
for assignment, which is simple and extremely common. I don't
think the block statement is simple enough or common enough for
that; its semantics are much too significant to be flagged o
On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> The more I think about it the more I like having no keyword at all
> (see other messages).
I hope you'll reconsider this. I really think introducing a new
statement requires a keyword, for pedagogical reasons as well as
readability and consistency.
[Michael Spencer]
> I don't know whether it's true for all the PEP 340 use cases, but the all the
> current examples would read very naturally if the block-template could be
> specified in an extended try statement:
Sorry, this emphasizes the wrong thing. A try-statement emphasizes
that the body m
Michael Spencer:
> I don't know whether it's true for all the PEP 340 use cases, but the all the
> current examples would read very naturally if the block-template could be
> specified in an extended try statement:
>> 1. A template for ensuring that a lock, acquired at the start of a
>>
I don't know whether it's true for all the PEP 340 use cases, but the all the
current examples would read very naturally if the block-template could be
specified in an extended try statement:
1. A template for ensuring that a lock, acquired at the start of a
block, is released when th
