Sequence-length - Missing the obvious ?

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <m3d7lzyvir.fsf at atrus.jesus.cam.ac.uk>,
Michael Hudson  <mwh21 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>aahz at netcom.com (Aahz Maruch) writes:
>>
>> Let's be technically precise here: an exception is raised and caught by
>> the "for" handler; the for loop is then broken (precisely as if the
>> break statement was executed).  Like any other caught exception, the
>> exception is thrown away (not "error is cleared").
>
>Not quite "precisely as if the break statement was executed", wrt else
>blocks.  

Oh, right, forgot about that.  I never use else blocks for loops.
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