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From: Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 05:16:17 -0400
Subject: Re: from future import pass_function
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On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 1:20 AM, Michael Hrivnak <mhrivnak@hrivnak.org> wrote:
> If we want pass(), then why not break() and continue()?  And also
> def() and class()?  for(), while(), if(), with(), we can make them all
> callable objects!

No, you actually can't.

You omit the one control flow statement that could actually be turned
into a function, raise. None of the rest could in Python (except
class), and one of the rest couldn't in any language (def).

-- Devin