On Dienstag 05 Oktober 2010, MRAB wrote: > > About notation, even if loved right-hand-half-open > > intervals, I would wonder about [a,b] noting it. I guess > > 99.9% of programmers and novices (even purely amateur) have > > learnt about intervals at school in math courses. Both > > notations I know of use [a,b] for closed intervals, while > > half-open ones are noted either [a,b[ or [a,b). Thus, for > > me, the present C/python/etc notation is at best > > misleading. So, what about a hypothetical language using > > directly math unambiguous notation, thus also letting > > programmers chose their preferred semantics (without > > fooling others)? End of war? > > Dijkstra came to his conclusion after seeing the results of > students using the programming language Mesa, which does > support all 4 forms of interval.
what was his conclusion? -- Wolfgang -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
