On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Terry Reedy tjreedy@udel.edu wrote:
Josiah Carlson wrote:
break if condition else continue continue if condition else break
No that would be silly.
Why? It follows directly from conditional expressions
In my view, backwards conditional expressions were Guido's worst mistake. This proposal and comments like the above partly illustrate why I think so.
I don't know if it was his worst mistake in language design, but I agree it did open the door for such proposals.
- Josiah