On 30Mar2010 10:25, Chris Colbert <sccolb...@gmail.com> wrote: | not really, the int will eventually overflow and cycle around ;) | | On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Xavier Ho <cont...@xavierho.com> wrote: | | > Did no one notice that | > for(i = 99; i > 0; ++i) | > Gives you an infinite loop (sort of) because i starts a 99, and increases | > every loop?
And here we see the strength of the Usability example; in Python it won't overflow, rather seguing seamlessly into an increasing expensive arbitrary sized int. Though most machines will eventually run out of memory to hold it... -- Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Surely it was of this place, now Cambridge but formerly known by the name of Babylon, that the prophet spoke when he said, 'the wild beasts of the desert shall dwell there, and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures, and owls shall build there, and satyrs shall dance there.' - Thomas Gray (1716-1771) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
