Range Operation pre-PEP

[Roman Suzi]

On Thu, 10 May 2001, Rainer Deyke wrote:

>"Carlos Ribeiro" <cribeiro at mail.inet.com.br> wrote in message
>news:mailman.989496615.20130.python-list at python.org...
>> So, if we can propose a new syntax that:
>>
>> - is clear for both novices and experienced Python programmers
>> - does not break anyone's code
>> - is consistent with related features (slicing and list comprehensions)
>>
>> ... there will be no real reason not to make it.
>
>Only if you don't value simplicity.  If this is the case, why are you using
>Python at all?

I do not see how syntactical ranges could spoil simplicity!

Sincerely yours, Roman Suzi
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