[Python-Dev] PEP-xxx: Unification of for statement and list-comp syntax

Mon May 22 10:07:27 CEST 2006

> I saw them. Your brain must be wired very differently
> to mine, because I find loops with a continue in them
> harder to follow than ones without -- exactly the
> opposite of what you seem to prefer.

Delurking for no particular reason:
For what it's worth, I also favor the continue syntax Heiko compared 
his code against. Without it, you have to scroll to the end of the 
loop to know whether there is an else clause; it also allows you to 
have multiple conditions expressed up-front without a lot of 
indentation. In general, I favor the idea that the main flow of 
computation should have the least indentation. I also am +1 on this 
PEP, even if it is doomed, as I've often longed to use list- 
comprehension like syntax in a for loop; to me it is mentally taxing 
to remember which syntax is supported where.
Just thought I'd throw Heiko some support. :)
Niko