[Python-ideas] Updating PEP 315: do-while loops

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 04:22:31 pm George Sakkis wrote:
> "Weird" is an understatement; I'd rather say outright misleading.
> There's nothing in "do ... while cond" that even hints that the
> condition is not checked the first time.

Well, not quite. The ellipsis is a hint that there's something unusual 
going on. I agree that the meaning of the ellipsis is not intuitive, 
but that's not important. There's nothing intuitive about loops in the 
first place :)

I could live with ellipsis, although it's not my first preference. I'd 
call it a syntactic wart, like writing a tuple of one item as 
(object,). 


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Steven D'Aprano