On 6/14/05, Eric Nieuwland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From Programming Languages 101 I remember this construct in Algol 68. > It was then claimed to be *the* universal loop construct. If that is > true __and__ it is easy to implement, I'd say +INF for PEP 315.
It's true, but this both dates you (A68 has been dead for several decades) and locates you: it was said that A68's popularity was inversely proportional to (the square of?) the distance from Amsterdam. It also dates and locates me. :-) -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
