PEP 276 Simple Iterator for ints (fwd)

[David Eppstein]

In article <9up46o$e2ost$1 at fido.engr.sgi.com>, pj at sgi.com (Paul Jackson) 
wrote:

> Ok - so you choose to go down that fork in the decision tree:
> 
>     The problem I have with this then is that it results
>     in the comparison operators <, <=, ..., >, >= sometimes
>     requiring a list of assignable expressions on one or the
>     other side, as opposed to their current usage, which
>     requires comparable expressions on both sides.
> 
>     This sort of subtle, context sensitive syntax change
>     feels weird and unsettling to me.

And you're not equally unsettled by the identical behavior of "in"?

> I suspect you wouldn't want me to be able to say:
> 
>     for (1,10) <= (a,b) <= (2,11):
> 
> Or perhaps you would ??  This starts to get complicated again.

I'm not sure about that one.
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David Eppstein       UC Irvine Dept. of Information & Computer Science
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