Guido van Rossum wrote: > 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. :-)
Lucky me ;-) _______________________________________________ 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
