PEP 276 Simple Iterator for ints (fwd)

Mikael Olofsson mikael at isy.liu.se
Fri Nov 16 02:38:33 EST 2001


On 15-Nov-2001 Christopher A. Craig wrote:
 >  What do you think "1, 2 .. 5" specifies?
 >  
 >  1) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
 >  2) 1, 3, 5 
 >  3) 1, 3

Don't forget the possibility to interprete that as (1,(2,3,4,5)) or
something similar. The notation is definitely ambiguous.

 >  If I saw it on a math paper, I would immediately presume (1).  

Me too.

/Mikael

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