[Python-3000] self-contained exceptions

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 03:33 PM 1/11/2007 -0500, Terry Reedy wrote:
>Yes, I already see it that way.  It would be nice if the rule for 'as'
>targets were as consistent as possible (ie, at least the same for except
>and with)

No can do - with needs tuples, except isn't getting them.

If we did allow tuples in both cases, the "except" ones wouldn't be cleared 
at the end of the block, but the "with" ones would...  unless we decided to 
make them all go away.  There might be sane reasons for doing that with 
"with", but I'm not sure those reasons apply to "except".

(sigh) Good language design is *hard*.