On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 1:19 PM, Pavol Lisy <pavol.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 8/17/17, Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: >> Steve D'Aprano wrote: >>> If he wanted declarative semantics, why didn't he argue for declarative >>> syntax >>> like "select...where", instead of choosing procedural syntax which matches >>> the >>> actual procedural semantics given? >> >> I don't agree that the word "for" necessarily implies proceduralness. > > With this logic (I humbly think that) word "while" neither > necessarilly implies proceduralness.
"while" implies a condition that is currently true and may at some point stop being true. To me, that sequentiality does imply proceduralness. "for", to quote from Merriam-Webster, indicates "equivalence in exchange". A precise definition seems hard to nail down, but there's no such implication there. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
