Mensanator wrote:
On Oct 14, 2:19�am, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:02:09 -0700 (PDT), Mensanator
<mensana...@aol.com> declaimed the following in
gmane.comp.python.general:
You're not getting away that easy.
What's YOUR opinion of "whilr True"?
� � � � Uhm... that it isn't valid in any language having English influence
upon it's keywords...
Duh. You DO know that 'r' is next to 'e' on the
keyboard?
Not on mine -- it's next to 'o' and 'u'. :-) Go Dvorak!
� � � � If anything -- I'd suggest a proposal to add a plain � �loop � �as a
keyword in Python, whose effect is equivalent to a "while True", but a
break � �must be used to exit said loop (well, we'll ignore raising an
exception <G>)
And what will that accomplish? The problem isn't
using while True, it's the fact that you are
escaping the loop. Best Practice is to EXIT the
loop properly, not escape from it.
I don't think anyone's arguing the opposite. What I *am* seeing argued
is if it's the only correct way to do it, and that anyone who does it
any other way is a scoundrel and a knave. ;-)
For what it's worth, most of my loops run to completion, with no sign of
a break anywhere. Some have a break, and use it. Some, even, (dare I
say it?) use break *and* else! And it's awesome! Go Python! :-D
~Ethan~
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