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Re: Proposed keyword to transfer control to another function

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Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> writes:
> # derived from Paul Rubin's example
> def quicksort(array, start, end):
>      midp = partition(array, start, end)

Heh, forgot to include the base case, as someone pointed out.  Oh well,
it's pseudocode, or something.

>         transfer quicksort(array, midp+1, end)

Overall I like the idea but though it doesn't seem terribly important in
the scheme of things.  

I think the syntax has converged to "return from" which seems good to me.

> Note that this is incompatible with 'try' and 'with' blocks, and is

Maybe something can be done about that.

> Is there anything that I've missed out in speccing this up? I've a
> suspicion that this might turn out to be as complicated as 'yield
> from' in all its handling of edge cases.

Seems worthy of more thought.

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Proposed keyword to transfer control to another function Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-17 09:46 +1000
  Re: Proposed keyword to transfer control to another function Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-07-17 20:16 -0700
  Re: Proposed keyword to transfer control to another function Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2015-07-19 11:32 +1200
    Re: Proposed keyword to transfer control to another function Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-19 10:21 +1000
    Re: Proposed keyword to transfer control to another function Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-07-19 12:05 -0400
    Re: Proposed keyword to transfer control to another function Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-20 02:13 +1000
    Re: Proposed keyword to transfer control to another function MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2015-07-19 17:24 +0100
    Re: Proposed keyword to transfer control to another function Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-20 02:32 +1000
    Re: Proposed keyword to transfer control to another function Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-07-19 17:41 +0100
    Re: Proposed keyword to transfer control to another function Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-20 02:50 +1000
    Re: Proposed keyword to transfer control to another function Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2015-07-21 19:33 +0200
    Re: Proposed keyword to transfer control to another function Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-22 03:38 +1000

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