[Python-Dev] Withdrawn PEP 288 and thoughts on PEP 342

[Barry Warsaw]

On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 00:43, Raymond Hettinger wrote:

> Let me go on record as a strong -1 for "continue EXPR".  The for-loop is
> our most basic construct and is easily understood in its present form.
> The same can be said for "continue" and "break" which have the added
> advantage of a near zero learning curve for people migrating from other
> languages.
> 
> Any urge to complicate these basic statements should be seriously
> scrutinized and held to high standards of clarity, explainability,
> obviousness, usefulness, and necessity.  IMO, it fails most of those
> tests. 
> 
> I would not look forward to explaining "continue EXPR" in the tutorial
> and think it would stand out as an anti-feature.

I'm sympathetic to this argument.  I also find yield expressions
jarring.  I don't have any better suggestions though.

-Barry

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