[Python-Dev] Chaining try statements: eltry? (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sat Jul 9 07:20:12 CEST 2005

Guido van Rossum wrote:

I sometimes think it was a mistake to introduce elif just to save typing "else if".

The problem with the elwhile/elfor/eltry idea is that you're just as likely to need e.g. a "try" in the else clause of a while-loop as another while,

Here's an idea for Python 3000 which addresses both of these: Split 'elif' back up into 'else if', but also generalise it so that any 'else' can be followed by any suite-introducing statement. Then you get all possible combinations for free.

Greg

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