PEP 234: Iterators
Neil Schemenauer
nas at python.ca
Mon May 7 11:30:23 EDT 2001
Roman Suzi wrote:
> I am not sure abput "reference implementation" part.
That's okay. PEPs don't have to be implemented by the same
people that right them.
> And also the proposed syntax has very narrow application:
>
> only for range(start, end+1) things.
> Any other additions almost certainly will add non-clarity.
That's fine.
> OK. Probably
>
> 1, 3 ... 11
>
> is right way to specify the equivalent of
>
> range(1, 11+1, 3-1)
That doesn't seem very obvious to me. It might be useful to look
what Haskell does in this case. I think they use [0..9] to mean
the same thing as range(10). I don't know what they do for
non-contiguous ranges.
Neil
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