On Mar 18, 2009, at 2:08 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:

> Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote:
>
>> However, myself I consider for-from present mostly for backwards
>> compatability anyway,

Me too, though I actually do like the syntax. Lets let the endpoints  
always be fixed for consistency between Cython and Pyrex.

> Efficiency wasn't the only reason I added the
> for-from loop to Pyrex. Equally important, perhaps
> more so, is that it provides a concise and readable
> way of specifying inclusion or exclusion of each
> endpoint.
>
> As for the value of the loop variable after the
> loop, I'd be willing to consider it undefined, so
> that whatever behaviour is most efficiently
> implementable can be used.

What about the behavior of

for i from 0 <= i < 10:
     print i
     i += 5

?

- Robert
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