[Python-Dev] PEP 340 -- loose ends

[Guido van Rossum]

These are the loose ends on the PEP (apart from filling in some
missing sections):

1. Decide on a keyword to use, if any.

2. Decide on the else clause.

3. Decide on Phillip Eby's proposal to have a different API for
blocks, so you would have to use a @decorator to turn a generator into
something usable in a block.

Here are my strawman decisions, to the extent that I'm clear on them:

1. I still can't decide on keyword vs. no keyword, but if we're going
to have a keyword, I haven't seen a better proposal than block. So
it's either block or nothing. I'll sleep on this. Feel free to start
an all-out flame war on this in c.l.py. ;-)

2. No else clause; the use case is really weak and there are too many
possible semantics. It's not clear whether to generalize from
for/else, or if/else, or what else.

3. I'm leaning against Phillip's proposal; IMO it adds more complexity
for very little benefit.

Unless there's more discussion on any of these, I'll probably finish
up the PEP and post it to c.l.py in a few days.

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--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)