Quoth Ron Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
| ... The current for-else
| is IMHO is reversed to how the else is used in an if statement.
Is that all? As a matter of opinion, this one is fairly simply
an arbitrary choice to assign a positive sense to completion of
the loop predicate. For search loops, for example, it's clearly
a failure - the loop predicate is there to put a bound on the search,
and to reach that bound is to fail.
Whatever, I don't care if you find this compelling. My point
is that rather than a case of intuition driven by subconscious
forces beyond our control, the choice between two ways to take
the boolean sense of a loop control is really based on some
logical premises, which we can reconsider if it's productive
to do so. I prefer this to fantasies about changing the language,
your mileage may vary.
Donn Cave, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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