I will remove the comments.

To use if condition, we would need equivalent of a break. What is the elisp-y way of breaking out of a loop.

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On Apr 6, 2018, 7:26 PM, Noam Postavsky wrote:

> Nitish  writes:
>
>> (when (not arg)
>> - (while (and (forward-line -1)
>> - (looking-at (python-rx decorator))))
>> - (forward-line 1))
>> + (while (and
>> + ;; Make sure forward-line actually moves Point
>> + (eq (forward-line -1) 0)
>> + ;; If Point is at a decorator, loop.
>> + ;; else, move one line down and exit the loop.
>> + (or (looking-at (python-rx decorator))
>> + (and (forward-line 1) nil)))))
>
> Thanks. You could drop the comments, since they just repeat what the
> code is saying. And, while I know it's fairly common to use `and' and
> `or' like that to encode conditionals, perhaps using `if' directly would
> minimize the temptation to rephrase it as an "if" statement in English. @protonmail.com>