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Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 10:32:55 -0700
From: Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us>
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On 07/17/2015 12:17 AM, Antoon Pardon wrote:
> On 07/17/2015 01:46 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> Open for bikeshedding: What should the keyword be? We can't use
>> "exec", which would match Unix and shell usage, because it's already
>> used in a rather different sense in Python. Current candidates:
>> "transfer", "goto", "recurse", and anything else you suggest.
>
> I propose the combination "return from".

+1

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