[Python-ideas] for/else statements considered harmful (original) (raw)
Yuval Greenfield ubershmekel at gmail.com
Thu Jun 7 09:23:05 CEST 2012
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We had quite a lengthy discussion on for/else in October 2009 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2009-October/thread.html#5924
Guido mentioned:
I would not have the feature at all if I had to do it over. I would not choose another keyword. But I don't see the same level of danger in it that some here see. I am also against adding a syntax warning for this [[loops with else but without break]]. It belongs in pylint etc.
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2009-October/006157.html
Personally I'd prefer "if not break:" over "else:" but as we're stuck where we are today I'm just going to encourage people not to use the construct at all.
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