[Python-Dev] PEP 343 rewrite complete

[Eric Nieuwland]

Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> At 08:46 PM 6/1/2005 +0200, Eric Nieuwland wrote:
>> If I look at the translation it an augmented 'try'.
>>         with EXPR as VAR:
>>                 BLOCK1
>>         except EXCEPTION:
>>                 BLOCK2
>> could then be translated to
>
> -1, too confusing.

A matter of taste, I guess. IMHO 'with' secretly handling exceptions is 
confusing.

>> Can the 'throw()' method be renamed 'raise()'? IMHO that makes much
>> clearer what happens.
>
> No, 'raise' is a reserved word.  It would have to be 'raise_()'.  -0.

My bad. Should have thought about that.

>> Same thing with 'GeneratorExit', 'StopGeneration' more closely matches
>> 'StopIteration'.
>
> StopIteration is raised the *other* way, so closely matching isn't 
> really a benefit.  -1.

Yep! Misread that one.

--eric