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Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 00:10:46 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Loop... or...
From: leight@gmail.com (Leigh)

On 19 September 2014 23:47, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote:
>
> While this might be useful, I=E2=80=99d prefer we copy Python=E2=80=99s e=
lse behaviour, where a block of code is executed when break is never used. =
This feature makes code that does, for example, a linear search nicer to re=
ad.
>
> --
> Andrea Faulds
> http://ajf.me/
>


Hey Andrea,

The RFC describes in particular why the else keyword is a bad choice,
and opens up the possibility of Python-style "else" in a future RFC.
Please consider this feature request as independent of any
python-related functionality.

I understand the desire for something python-like, however it
certainly doesn't fall under the "or" keyword. If anything we could
probably get  away with it under "and", or introduce a new keyword of
"then", but really, that is a subject for a different thread
altogether. This thread is about the "loop not entered" syntax. Lets
stick to that for now, and I'm more than happy to create a thread for
the other scenario later on, and we can discuss the python style there
instead.

Cheers,

Leigh.