On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn <[email protected]> wrote: > I think so -- the for-from loop is a C idiom from which one can expect C > behaviour from my perspective, and if this has been the behaviour so far > then backward compatability alone speaks against altering it. The range > optimization has been around for much shorter and clearly should behave > as Python range, so that story is different. >
Indeed. I've wrote code where the C semantics is assumed. > (Well, my real perspective is that for-from should be deprecated and > removed prior to a 1.0 release, but let's not have that war now :-) ) > No please! Again, the C semantics is useful in some cases, and removing it will make a lot of code out there stop compiling. > Dag Sverre > _______________________________________________ > Cython-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev > -- Lisandro Dalcín --------------- Centro Internacional de Métodos Computacionales en Ingeniería (CIMEC) Instituto de Desarrollo Tecnológico para la Industria Química (INTEC) Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) PTLC - Güemes 3450, (3000) Santa Fe, Argentina Tel/Fax: +54-(0)342-451.1594 _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
