More random python observations from a perl programmer

[Magnus L. Hetland]

"Rich Salz" <salzr at certco.com> writes:

> >No, I'm sorry, the expressivity of "break LABEL" and "continue LABEL"
> >are much clearer than the cicumlocutions necessary for exceptions.
> 
> You sure?  I wasn't aware that I could break and return a value, such as
> the name of the file that wasn't found.  At least not without a lot of
> circuml^H^H^H^H^H global variables.
> 

Acutally - in the line of considering labelled breaks expressive...
The most expressive construct in this venue would be GOTO, no? <wink>

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  Hetland                                       : Minamoto Shigeyuki