[Python-Dev] PEP 340: Breaking out.

[Eric Nieuwland]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> [Skip Montanaro]
>> To the casual observer, this
>> looks like "break" should break out of the loop:
>>
>>     while True:
>>         block synchronized(v1):
>>             ...
>>             if v1.field:
>>                 break
>>         time.sleep(1)
>
> Without 'block' this would be written as try/finally. And my point is
> that people just don't write try/finally inside a while loop very
> often (I found *no* examples in the entire standard library).

Errr... Dutch example: Dining Philosophers (Dijkstra)

--eric