[Python-ideas] multiple intro statements [was: combine for/with statement]

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

ron3200 writes:

 > This tries to do two distinct things.
 >      1. Put multiple statements on a single line.
 >      2. Have them apply to a common block of code.

No.  Each statement applies to the block following it, which starts on
the same line.  There's no common block involved, rather several
strictly nested blocks.

 > So the order becomes something of importance,

Sure, just like short-circuited logical expressions.  However, it is
unambiguously expressed.

 > and it also becomes something of a problem to parse mentally.

Agreed (and Greg at least agrees, too).