On 6/12/07, Nis Jørgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > exhuma.twn skrev: > > >> for number in range(10,100): > >> for divisor in range(2,number): > >> if number % divisor == 0: > >> break > >> else: > >> print number, > >> > > > > Oh my. Would it not be an idea to rename this "else" into a "finally"? > > As Gabriel points out, the else-block gets executed after the for loop > > exits *normally*. In that case, is the "else" not semantically > > misleading? I would surely misunderstand it if I saw it the first time. > > "finally" would be at least equally confusing IMO, indicating that the > code is always called (although this would of course make it a > ridiculous construct). > > /Nis > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
I think finally would be semantically nicer than else. . . maybe something like "andthen" instead (yeah that's ugly). I mean, else works (so would herbivore), but the terminology is a bit weird. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
