0) Sorry, I don't know how to post a reply in the same thread. 1) Grant Edwards wrote: > The "i += 1" line is almost certainly wrong. You're certainly write, as I acknowledged in a follow up "suggestion for (re)try statement - correction' 2) Rocco Morreti wrote: > What is so repugnant about the equivalent, currently valid way of writing it? Nothing "repugnant". We have in almost all procedural languages an "if-else" construct, and a "case" or "elif" as well. Same with "for", "while", "do...while". It's all about convenience, not about getting to bare bone equivalents.
So, I thought it's convenient to have the extra functionality in the try statement, and am willing to see what others think about it. > And remember - your goal isn't ultimately to convince me or someother person on comp.lang.python, it's to convince Guido I'm not trying to convince anybody. In the democratic state-of-mind in which I live, the idea will be taken in consideration if it is found useful by many, not by one, even if the one is the almighty Guido. Not that I don't respect his opinions, or his work on Python, but I think that "popular demand" should prevail. Not trying to say that the "benevolent dictator", the modern Franz-Josef, is not listening... Sorin __________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - Make it your home page! http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list