PEP 284, Integer for-loops (code bash?)

[Michael Chermside]

> 1.  Michael! Your Computer thinks its April!  You are making
>     python archives one month ahead of yourself!
>     (see: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-April/091714.html)

Yipes! Thanks. Someone's idea of an april fools joke on me maybe? 
Anyway, thanks for point it out.


> 2. Haskell, which I mispelt, shame on me, I know better, is a
>    functional language. 

I certainly know of the language and didn't even notice the misspelling.


>    It has functional syntax - don't go there looking
>    for a 'for loop'.  However, it also has list comprehensions, (which is
>    where we got them from, I think).  So, what I meant was 'I wish that 
>    Guido had used Haskell's syntax for arithmetic sequences in Python's 
>    for loops'.  That is as follows:

I figured you meant something like that.

>    [1..10]     => [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]
>    [1,3..8]    => [1,3,5,7]
>    [1,3..]     => [1,3,5,7,9, ... (infinite sequence)

Aha! Abundantly clear.

> 3.  Make the time to learn Haskell.  It is simply too much fun.

It's next on my list.

Thanks!

-- Michael Chermside