On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 9:53 PM, <bart4...@gmail.com> wrote: > Pointers are perhaps a more technical feature. Switch and case, the latter a > more general version of switch, are universal. > > > Repeat n times is universal. While it is trivial to implement with other > constructs, it as an annoyance and distraction that is easily fixed. > > Now you will probably say it is possible to do without loops at all, or > without selecting from one of multiple execution paths (by using functional > approaches). I suggest that such features just make life a little simpler. > (And make writing an efficient interpreter a little bit easier.) >
Interesting that you want a "repeat N times" construct rather than "for _ in range(n):", for efficiency; but you're happy to have pointers, which prevent many forms of optimization. The instant you have a pointer, you are forced to store that data at that location in memory, in case something dereferences that pointer. Python, on the other hand, is free to optimize things down to a stack, so long as there's no semantic difference. Also: how do you do memory management when you have pointers? Or do you give that job to the programmer? ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
