On Sat, 30 Jul 2016 11:58 pm, BartC wrote: > The 'i' is superfluous. Why not: > > for 10:
Why bother? What's so special about this that it needs dedicated syntax? Hypertalk (and related XTalk languages) offer a number of dedicated looping constructs. Using square brackets [] for optional terms: repeat [forever] repeat [for] number [times] repeat until condition repeat while condition repeat with variable = start [to] end repeat with variable = start [down to] end That's right, a bare "repeat" on its own gives you an infinite loop. Does *your* language have special syntax for infinite loops? If not, why not? We should accept that some things are just a matter of taste and idiom. When I wrote code in Hypertalk, I used those six different forms and found them perfectly reasonable *in that language*. When I write Python code, I never find myself wishing I could write Hypertalk code repeat loops (not since 1998 or thereabouts) in Python, since they don't "feel" right for the language: at best, it would be like suddenly dropping into Lolcat in the middle of an ordinary English sentence. Good for a giggle, but that's all. -- Steven “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
