[Python-Dev] PEP 340 -- loose ends

[Noam Raphael]

On 5/4/05, Reinhold Birkenfeld <reinhold-birkenfeld-nospam at wolke7.net> wrote:
> 
> There is one problem with using no keyword: You cannot use arbitrary expressions
> in the new statement. Consider:
> 
> resource = opening("file.txt")
> block resource:
>     (...)
> 
> resource = opening("file.txt")
> resource:
>     (...)
> 
> The latter would have to be forbidden.

Can you explain why it would have to be forbidden please?

Thanks,
Noam