Integers class...?

[Greg Ewing]

Magnus Lie Hetland wrote:
> 
>   from ints import ints
> 
>   for x in ints[0, 2, ..., 10]:
>       print x

If you're doing that, it might be better to use
the existing slice notation:

  for x in ints[0:11]:
    ...

The only new thing to learn then is that 'ints'
is a sequence containing (conceptually) all the
integers.

Hmmm, I'm sure someone suggested this before...

The only thing you don't get from that is an
easy way to iterate backwards. The best I can
think of is

  for x in reverse(ints[0:11]):

But then to make it lazy, reverse() would have
to do some interesting things. (And no, I don't
want an xreverse function! I hate x... names.)

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