On Mon, 02 Sep 2013 10:29:05 +0200, Antoon Pardon wrote:
> Why should we be more
> concerned with cascading ifs than with cascading controls in general?
What cascading controls?
for element in seq:
if filter:
<block>
is not a cascading control.
[...]
> All these discussions
> about combining controls would have been unnecessary without the
> enforced strict indentation.
Instead, we would have spent 100 times as much time and energy debating
the One True Indentation Scheme, akin to the brace wars that went on for
*years* in the C community. And still haven't completely gone.
> we wouldn't now be
> discussing the pro and cons of loop comprehension because we could have
> just layed out the code so that it illustrated our intention of a loop
> comprehension.
Which the current syntax is perfectly fine at doing.
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