[Python-Dev] PEP-xxx: Unification of for statement and list-comp syntax (original) (raw)

Niko Matsakis niko at alum.mit.edu
Mon May 22 10:07:27 CEST 2006

I saw them. Your brain must be wired very differently to mine, because I find loops with a continue in them harder to follow than ones without -- exactly the opposite of what you seem to prefer.

Delurking for no particular reason:

For what it's worth, I also favor the continue syntax Heiko compared
his code against. Without it, you have to scroll to the end of the
loop to know whether there is an else clause; it also allows you to
have multiple conditions expressed up-front without a lot of
indentation. In general, I favor the idea that the main flow of
computation should have the least indentation. I also am +1 on this
PEP, even if it is doomed, as I've often longed to use list- comprehension like syntax in a for loop; to me it is mentally taxing
to remember which syntax is supported where.

Just thought I'd throw Heiko some support. :)

Niko

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