[Python-Dev] PEP 343 - next steps

[Guido van Rossum]

On 6/10/05, Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> wrote:
> > - throw() is a term taken from Java & C++.
> 
> This was intended.  There was much discussion about this for PEP 288 and
> this was more or less a concensus choice.  The term is already
> associated with exceptions in other languages and it captures the
> concept of the raise occurring somewhere else (what is thrown at or
> into).  It is simple, clear, and tends to suggest all the right things.
> 
> I have no doubt that someone can point out differing semantics in other
> languages but I don't care.  The verbal cue is what we are after.

Cool. throw() it is.

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