PEP 276 Simple Iterator for ints (fwd)
Paul Jackson
pj at sgi.com
Wed Nov 28 19:17:34 EST 2001
Greg wrote:
> ... unless "i in 5" on its own were valid and
> had a rather unintuitive meaning.
But "i in 5" does have exactly the meaning needed here,
for:
0 is the nul set
1 is the set containing 0
2 is the set containing 0 and 1
...
5 is the set containing 0 through 4
...
n is the set containing 0 through n-1.
Well ... to the 3 dozen people on the planet who majored
in set theory this is all quite intuitive.
I will grant that I'm in a distinct minority <grin>.
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