[Python-Dev] Re: anonymous blocks

[Greg Ewing]

Guido van Rossum wrote:

> I don't know. What exactly is the audience supposed to be of this
> high-level statement? It would be pretty darn impossible to explain
> even the for-statement to people who are new to programming, let alone
> generators.

If the use of block-statements becomes common for certain
tasks such as opening files, it seems to me that people are
going to encounter their use around about the same time
they encounter for-statements. We need *something* to
tell these people to enable them to understand the code
they're reading.

Maybe it would be sufficient just to explain the meanings
of those particular uses, and leave the full general
explanation as an advanced topic.

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