On Friday 23 September 2005 07:11 am, Rick Wotnaz wrote: > I've long thought that Guido missed an opportunity by not choosing > to use 'i' as the instance identifier, and making it a reserved > word. For one thing, it would resonate with the personal pronoun > 'I', and so carry essentially the same meaning as 'self'. It could > also be understood as an initialism for 'instance'. And, because it > is shorter, the number of objections to its existence *might* have > been smaller than seems to be the case with 'self' as the > convention. > > And as a side benefit, it would make it impossible to use as a loop > index a language feature that would be a huge selling point among a > lot of experienced programmers.
How exactly is that? Anybody who uses "i" as a variable name for anything other than an innermost loop index is a sick and twisted code sadist. You'd prefer what? "count" or "kount" or "i_am_an_innermost_loop_index_counter". I mean "explicit is better than implicit", right? Maybe Fortran warped my brain, but I just don't see the benefit here. -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
