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Wed Apr 18 02:05:12 EDT 2001 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-April/097526.html

>(Make believe a newbie is learning to program computers.)  "break"-- well?  What
>does this mean?  "If I type 'break', will it crash the computer?"  The keyword
>"break" is a "hold-over" from a previous language.
>
>Now, a loop "in the _nature_ of a while loop" would look like this:
>
># do the test before the body, just like "while"--
>loop:
>    if condition: leave

Well, if I were writing some new language, I might favor:

loop:
	if [condition]: stop-looping

... or some other EXTREMELY CLEAR idiom.

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