"Usability, the Soul of Python"

[Cameron Simpson]

On 30Mar2010 10:25, Chris Colbert <sccolbert at gmail.com> wrote:
| not really, the int will eventually overflow and cycle around ;)
| 
| On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Xavier Ho <contact at xavierho.com> wrote:
| 
| > Did no one notice that
| > for(i = 99; i > 0; ++i)
| > Gives you an infinite loop (sort of) because i starts a 99, and increases
| > every loop?

And here we see the strength of the Usability example; in Python it
won't overflow, rather seguing seamlessly into an increasing expensive
arbitrary sized int. Though most machines will eventually run out of
memory to hold it...
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