Proposed keyword to transfer control to another function
Paul Rubin
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Fri Jul 17 23:16:29 EDT 2015
Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> writes:
> # derived from Paul Rubin's example
> def quicksort(array, start, end):
> midp = partition(array, start, end)
Heh, forgot to include the base case, as someone pointed out. Oh well,
it's pseudocode, or something.
> transfer quicksort(array, midp+1, end)
Overall I like the idea but though it doesn't seem terribly important in
the scheme of things.
I think the syntax has converged to "return from" which seems good to me.
> Note that this is incompatible with 'try' and 'with' blocks, and is
Maybe something can be done about that.
> Is there anything that I've missed out in speccing this up? I've a
> suspicion that this might turn out to be as complicated as 'yield
> from' in all its handling of edge cases.
Seems worthy of more thought.
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