for / while else doesn't make sense

[Jon Ribbens]

On 2016-05-22, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Mon, 23 May 2016 01:52 am, Jon Ribbens wrote:
>> On 2016-05-22, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
>>> How is this any better though? Complicated or not, people want to divide
>>> 1 by 2 and get 0.5. That is the functional requirement. Furthermore, they
>>> want to use the ordinary division symbol / rather than having to import
>>> some library or call a function.
>> 
>> That's a circular argument. You're defining the result as the
>> requirement and then saying that proves the result is necessary.
>> Clearly, people managed when 1/2 returned 0, and continue to do so
>> today in Python 2 and other languages.
>
> I'm not defining the result. 4000+ years of mathematics defines the result.

OK, I'm bored of you now. You clearly are not willing to imagine
a world beyond your own preconceptions. I am not saying that my view
is right, I'm just saying that yours is not automatically correct.
If you won't even concede that much then this conversation is pointless.