[Python-Dev] Lukewarm about range literals

[Greg Ewing]

Ka-Ping Yee <ping@lfw.org>:

>    for i in 1 .. 10:
>        print i*i

That looks quite nice to me!

>    for i in 0 ..! len(a):
>        a[i] += 1

And that looks quite ugly. Couldn't it just as well be

    for i in 0 .. len(a)-1:
        a[i] += 1

and be vastly clearer?

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