try raise SystemExit On 7/18/07, Mark Elston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
* James Stroud wrote (on 7/18/2007 4:27 PM): > Tobiah wrote: >> For years now, I've been exiting the shell by typing 'exit\n', >> being chid by the shell, and then typing ^D. I can't >> remember a time that I typed the ^D the first time. Call >> me an idiot if you must, but since someone took the trouble >> to catch the command 'exit' in a special way, would it have >> been so awful to just let it be a way to exit when the shell? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Toby >> > > Yes, this would have required a ground-up approach to redesigning the > python language, transmuting it to something like a cross between lisp > and COBOL and would have rendered it impossible to author with C because > of the way C implements pointers--hardcoding in assembly would likely be > required. Beyond that, exiting an interpreter is not known in computer > science and has been shown impossible by Goedel himself in a series of > monographs on the topic. Thus, to exit python via a keyword would > require also reformulating mathematics as we know it. Furthermore, such > a change would propagate itself, via the observer effect, to the > behavior of sub atomic particles via ill-defined quantum-mechanical > affects and would likely result in the reversal of the Second Law of > Thermodynamics, wherein your refrigerator would end up heating its > contents and milk would spontaneously spoil, among other anomalies. > > For these reasons, you might propose a "quit" keyword. > > James > You know, some answers simply *must* be saved for posterity.... Mark -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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