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[Jerry Hill]

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick at gmail.com>wrote:

> The else clause runs if the loop breaks for some reason.  So you would
> use it only to do some processing if the loop completes completely.
>
>
No.  The else clause only runs if the loop does NOT break out early.  The
else clause only runs if the loop runs to completion without breaking.

For what it's worth, I loathe for/else loops, and will probably never use
them in my code.  They confuse me every time I see them, and I have to go
look up the behavior.  My brain always jumps to the conclusion that the
"else" clause should run when we do hit a break, which is the exact
opposite of how it actually works.  Maybe if they had been written into the
language as for/then loops I would remember it correctly.

Jerry
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