Colin J. Williams wrote: > Bryan Cole wrote: > >>> >>> First, I think the range() function in python is ugly to begin with. >>> Why can't python just support range notation directly like 'for a in >>> 0:10'. Or with 0..10 or 0...10 syntax. That seems to make a lot more >>> sense to me than having to call a named function. Anyway, that's a >>> python pet peeve, and python's probably not going to change something >>> so fundamental...
I strongly agree that Python should promote range or xrange to syntax. I favor [0..10] rather than [0:10] because 0..10 is inherently easier to understand. Every maths text I have read uses the ".." notation to show ranges; for that reason, perhaps, Haskell uses "..". The colon is already overused; it both signals the beginning of compound statements, and has all sorts of slice/indexing meanings when it is inside square brackets, depending on how many colons there are and whether there are arguments between them. Haskell also has a good step notation. In Haskell: [1..10] means [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10] [1,3..10] means [1,3,5,7,9] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
