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

Mon May 22 21:20:12 CEST 2006

Niko Matsakis <niko at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>> > 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 

One could also consider documenting the fact that there is no else
clause...
 for i in ...:
 if ...: #no else clause
 ...
 - Josiah