[Python-Dev] PEP 3142: Add a "while" clause to generator expressions

[Facundo Batista]

2009/1/19 Gerald Britton <gerald.britton at gmail.com>:

> Could you please expand on your thoughts about possible confusion?
> That is, how do you see a programmer becoming confused if this option
> were added to the syntax.

My main concern about confusion is that you're adding a "while" that
actually will behave like a "break" in the "for".

I know that with "while" you read it better, but the meaning is
different in the generator/list comprehension "for" loop.

Regards,

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