On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 6:34 AM, Andrew Clover and-dev@doxdesk.com wrote:
Arnaud Delobelle wrote:
while True: do something if condition: break do something else
I think mid-test/multi-test loops are common enough that it might be worth explicit syntax to pick out the loop exit points:
while True: do something andwhile not condition: do something else
That breaks the flow of the loop, and it is not visually clear that "do something else" is a part of the while loop. This is one of many reasons why switch/case statements failed.
(or 'and while' if one wanted to save on reserved words. 'not condition' because the logic is reversed from the quoted example.)
Similarly for 'if', I often find myself with unsatisfactory constructs like:
if condition: do something if othercondition: success else: failure else: failure
I would like to flatten together the else clauses:
if condition: do something andif othercondition: success else: failure
That becomes ambiguous in the case of more than 2 levels of if, never mind needing andelif, never mind being wholly unreadable by non-english speakers. Flat is better than nested, but nested indents do offer clarity about what code does. A brief skimming of the above tells me nothing about the control flow of the code.
- Josiah