On 3/10/25 9:38 AM, John Wiersba wrote:

Maybe a comment in the documentation along the lines of:

     There are also alternate, deprecated syntactic constructs for these loops
     which will not be documented here

would serve both aims?

How is that better? It leads to the inevitable "well, what are they?"
questions and the just as inevitable "then why aren't they documented?"
and you're back where you started.

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