"Cameron Laird" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Dan Perl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>has the conciseness of the C statement. The pre- and post-increment
>>and -decrement in C/C++/Java are very powerful and I miss them in python.
>
> Me, too.
>
> Which is, I suspect, evidence for the incompleteness of our Pythonhood.
> As Peter Hansen already hinted in this thread, an appetite for the
> increment and related operators probably is a symptom that there's an
> opportunity nearby to use an iterator or string method or such. C++
> and Java wish they had it so good.
I can't say that is not part of the reason, but the example in the OP is a
clear illustration of cases where something like an increment/decrement
operator would be very useful. OTOH, I was thinking of saying in my
previous posting that I prefer
for n in range(start, 0, -1):
to
n = start
while (n--)
I think that the first form is more readable, although that may be just me.
I would actually even prefer the 'for' statement in C to the 'while'
statement:
for (n=start; n<=0; n--)
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