For-else deserves its own section in the tutorial #123946
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| the ``for`` loop, **not** the ``if`` statement.) | ||
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| One way to think of the else clause is to imagine it paired with the ``if`` | ||
| inside the loop. If you conceptually unroll the loop, you have an if/if/if/else |
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As noted in Discourse, I think the concept of “loop unrolling 1�7 may sound too foreign to novices reading a tutorial. The paragraph may serve the purpose just as well without this sentence.
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How about:
As the loop executes, it will run a sequence like
if/if/if/else. Theifis inside the loop, encountered a number of times. If the condition is ever true, abreakwill happen. If the condition is never true, the else clause outside the loop will execute.
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Ah yes that sounds to be in much plainer English to me. 👍
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