[Python-Dev] PEP 343 - Abstract Block Redux

[Greg Ewing]

Brett C. wrote:

> Nick's was obviously directly against looping, but, with no offense to Nick,
> how many other people were against it looping?  It never felt like it was a
> screaming mass with pitchforks but more of a "I don't love it, but I can deal"
> crowd.

My problem with looping was that, with it, the semantics
of a block statement would be almost, but not quite,
exactly like those of a for-loop, which seems to be
flying in the face of TOOWTDI. And if it weren't for
the can't-finalise-generators-in-a-for-loop backward
compatibility problem, the difference would be even
smaller.

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