On Thursday, January 10, 2013 03:19:51 bearophile wrote: > In my code iota() is common, even if it's surely not as common as > range() in Python. I think it's common enough that you remember > that iota(5) is a range of five items. And D too is 0-based. (and > iota in APL accepted one argument).
I almost never use iota. It's useful upon occasion, but in my experience, it's _far_ more common to iterate over ranges of items rather than just over a list of numbers. Clearly, you're doing things very differently than I am if you use iota that much. Regardless, I don't think that loss to clarity is worth the characters saved when providing only one argument to iota. - Jonathan M Davis
