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Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 14:31:51 +1000
Subject: Re: break in a module
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> I don't think the use-case for this is convincing enough to need it, but
> it's an interesting concept. I once played around with a mini-language
> for config files that included a "STOP" command, so that:
>
> key = value
> STOP
> everything under here is ignored
>

Isn't that how Perl's __data__ keyword works? (Long time since I've
used it, it mightn't be quite __data__.)

ChrisA