Steve Holden wrote: > Would you, say, remove "for" loops because they could be written as > "while" loops. Don't forget the word "obvious" that appears in that > catchphrase ...
Interestingly - and somewhat related to this - the other day I was looking for a do..while or do..until loop in the Python language reference, thinking that there must be a statement for it, since semantically they're distinct from while loops. I had a use case that could have been slightly simplified by such a construct. The fact that I didn't find one seemed slightly strange at first, coming from a C/Pascal background, although it did occur to me that I've used Python for years now and not noticed this lack before. -- Ben Sizer -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
