On 2/11/11, Andrei Alexandrescu <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2/10/11 8:28 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: >> What the hell does "to!" have to do with anything. Disregard my last >> post, it's obviously 3 AM and I'm talking gibberish. >> >> In any case, >> alias iota range; >> >> Problem solved for me! > > Aside from the fact that "range" has another meaning in D, the word does > not convey the notion that iota adds incremental steps to move from one > number to another. "Iota" does convey that notion. > > Andrei >
So why does Python use it? It seems Go uses iota, but for something different: http://golang.org/doc/go_spec.html#Iota That's rather ugly imo. But that's Go. :)
