On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 2:48 PM, John Ladasky <john_lada...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > On Wednesday, July 25, 2012 1:40:45 AM UTC-7, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I just had an idea, it occurred to me that the pass statement is pretty >> similar to the print statement, and similarly to the print() function, >> there could be a pass() function that does and returns nothing. > > I had very similar thoughts about eight months ago, and posted them here: > > https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/comp.lang.python/CB_5fek2b8A > > I'm no computer science guru, but the idea that pass should be a function > rather than a statement continues to appeal to me. As you can see, I > actually wrote just such a function so that I could use it as an argument in > my code.
As long as 1) the name can't be reassigned (like None) and 2) the compiler is able to optimize it out when used by itself as a statement (to avoid incurring the expense of a common but pointless name lookup), then I kind of agree. The added complexity of those two restrictions detracts a bit from the appeal to elegance, though. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
