From: Doug Kearns <dougkearns@...>
Date: 2005-08-30T20:23:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Aesthetics of while ... do ... end versus while ...: ... end

On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 08:52:12AM +0900, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> OK, this is really quite lame, but what do you people prefer:
> 
> while <test> do <something> end

I always use 'do' with 'while', 'until' and 'for' - probably the result
of too much shell programming.
 
> or
> 
> while <test>: <something> end

I don't think I've ever actually seen this used in anger and a quick
search of lib/ didn't seem to turn up any.
 
> ?
> 
> The latter is shorter, but the puncutation sometimes meshes badly with
> the test.  Any insights?,

Not really. ;-)

Regards,
Doug