operator overloading + - / * = etc...

[Paul Rubin]

Antoon Pardon <apardon at forel.vub.ac.be> writes:
> Suppose one has the following intention in mind:
> 
>   while x = setup():
>     if y = pre_process() in ErrorCondition:
>       break
>     post_process(y)
>   else:
>     NormalTermination()

Maybe we need a new itertools function:

   def forever(func, *args, **kw):
      while True:
         yield func(*args, **kw)

then you'd write:

   for x in takewhile(bool, forever(setup)):
      if y = pre_process() in ErrorCondition:
         break
      post_process(y)
   else:
      NormalTermination()

It might be preferable to write pre_process to raise an exception if
there's an error condition.  Then the whole thing becomes:

   try:
      for x in takewhile(bool, forever(setup)):
         post_process(pre_process())
      NormalTermination()
   except PreprocessError:
      pass