On Nov 27, 10:11 am, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED] central.gen.new_zealand> wrote: > Michele Simionato wrote: > > Guido and the Common Lisp implementors are happy with mutating the loop > > index. I myself prefer the functional way. > > I'd agree with you, except Python doesn't provide any way to create > user-defined constants, so constant loop indices have no precedent.
I do not understand if I should interpret your sentence as sarcasm or what. Looping without mutating the loop index is perfectly possible. For instance look at the first paragraph of http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=239699 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
