<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Um, yeah, I missed that and was just talking a bunch of BS...</div><div><br></div><div>Sorry, and thanks Steven for managing to point that out gently :-)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Jun 25, 2013, at 11:06 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <<a href="mailto:stephen@xemacs.org">stephen@xemacs.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Steven D'Aprano writes:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">I'm pretty sure they mean exactly what they say. Why else would<br>they say it? The coding standard in question is as clear as day:<br><br>[quote]<br>Using break and continue is not allowed in any of your code for<br>this class.<br>[end quote]<br></blockquote><br>Note that here they wrote "*this* class", while the rest of the rules<br>have no such clarification. It's quite possible that the exercises<br>for CSMC 201 are such that "break" or "continue" would rarely be good<br>style, and a more general rule will be introduced in more advanced<br>classes. I suspect that the faculty and TAs would revolt if they<br>frequently had to plow through the kind of example you presented.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Python-ideas mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Python-ideas@python.org">Python-ideas@python.org</a><br><a href="http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas">http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas</a></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>