A short Meta-note: I see most people are bottom-replying and still many do top-reply, namely you Nick always do. I dont know if there is a rule, but it makes quite hard to manage/read post with mixed posting style.
On 17 February 2017 at 23:51, Nick Timkovich <prometheus...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I think fundamentally by special-casing a for-loop variant, > you have a construct with limited/no generality that's > simply an additional burden to learn. I see it is almost a tradition to give negative comments, and that is ok in many cases. But I am slightly worried how *quick* you make judgements. In what sense iteration over integer is limited? It cannot write a program for you, no doubt. If you look through examples I made, including iterating over dictionary, you will see that you can do everything with simple iteration, including cases where you do not even have any sequence which you can put in, e.g. simple loop with constant parameters, which comes in extremely handy, e.g. in simple batch scripts. Probably you mean that it can come in play with Python's inner mechanics which will lead to performance loss - yes, can be, but I was not going to argue that. "burden to learn" - I hope you are not serious :) _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
