unintuitive for-loop behavior

[Rustom Mody]

On Friday, September 30, 2016 at 10:23:31 AM UTC+5:30, Gregory Ewing wrote:
> namenobodywants wrote:
>  > can anyone help to reconcile me to this semantics?
> 
> Not really. Most people agree that it's not desirable
> behaviour, but we've ended up here due to a convoluted
> history, and there doesn't seem to be a good way to
> fix it without breaking a lot of existing code.

Thanks for an unusually helpful answer.

In my experience telling a beginner: 
«This» is a misfeature/gotcha
And «this» is its workaround

greatly shortens the learning curve as compared to long-winded
justificatory explanations