[Python-Dev] "as" mania

[Guido van Rossum]

I suggest you file those as products of an overactive imagination. :-)

Have you even tried to define precise semantics for any of those, like
the expansion of "with E as V: B" in PEP 343?

--Guido

On 3/7/06, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> while "as" is being made a keyword, I remembered parallels between "with"
> and a proposal made some time ago:
>
> with expr as f:
>     do something with f
>
> while expr as f:
>     do something with f
>
> if expr as f:
>     do something with f
> elif expr as f:
>     do something else with f
>
> What do you think?
>
> Georg
>
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