[Python-ideas] Is this PEP-able? for X in ListY while conditionZ:

[Shane Green]

Um, yeah, I missed that and was just talking a bunch of BS...

Sorry, and thanks Steven for managing to point that out gently :-)



On Jun 25, 2013, at 11:06 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:

> Steven D'Aprano writes:
> 
>> I'm pretty sure they mean exactly what they say. Why else would
>> they say it? The coding standard in question is as clear as day:
>> 
>> [quote]
>> Using break and continue is not allowed in any of your code for
>> this class.
>> [end quote]
> 
> Note that here they wrote "*this* class", while the rest of the rules
> have no such clarification.  It's quite possible that the exercises
> for CSMC 201 are such that "break" or "continue" would rarely be good
> style, and a more general rule will be introduced in more advanced
> classes.  I suspect that the faculty and TAs would revolt if they
> frequently had to plow through the kind of example you presented.
> 
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