2009/10/14 Marco Mariani <ma...@sferacarta.com>: > Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > >> One thing to note is that "break" ONLY exits the innermost loop -- >> Ada adds the confusion that one could define a label on the loops, and >> have the innermost use >> exit outer_label [when condition] >> >> >> THAT I find scary... Since you have to match the label name to >> something that occurs somewhere prior to the "exit", and THEN have to >> find the end of that loop. > > But we have exceptions.
So has Ada. > And I know somebody, in other languages, thinks it's > a Best Practice to avoid using exceptions for flow control. > > Thankfully, python programmers are less dogmatic, and use whatever makes > sense to use. I hope. Absolutely. And it doesn't make sense to use exceptions for flow control :-) -- Tim Rowe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
