25 Jan
2012
25 Jan
'12
1:28 a.m.
Mike Meyer writes:
The point is to make the try statement more powerful.
Not on python-ideas, it isn't. Here, the point is to make Python more expressive (including clarity in "expressive"). That may mean making some statements less expressive (in the extreme, eliminating them entirely, as in the case of "print").
So long as you incorrectly see this as "just another looping construct", your conclusions will be flawed.
That's unfair. Nobody said "just". If anything, you were trying in earlier posts to maintain the opposite extreme ("not a looping construct").