Feb. 27, 2009
8:20 p.m.
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 4:49 AM, Curt Hagenlocher <curt@hagenlocher.org> wrote:
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 2:49 AM, Arnaud Delobelle <arnodel@googlemail.com> wrote:
Every compound statement could be made into an implicit try, i.e.
That way lies madness. What distinguishes "with" from other compound statements is that it's already about resource management in the face of possible exceptions.
Still, a firm -1 from me. Once we have "try try" I'm sure people are going to clamor for "try if", "try while", "try for", even (oh horror :-) "try try". I don't think we should complicate the syntax just to save one level of indentation occasionally. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)