William Stein wrote: > On 9/21/07, Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sep 21, 2007, at 5:40 AM, Jaap Spies wrote:
>> I don't think so, especially after resolving the issues above, but >> the two of us are probably equally bias about or own pieces of code. >> The only other person to have spoken up is William, maybe we should >> consider re-opening it if others speak up. > > I am biased against irange because there is already: > range, xrange, srange, and xsrange, > and the argumetn for irange is to *lesson* confusion. > Having irange will mean also having xirange, and that's > just too many ranges for my brain. > Why not prelude on Python 3k, where xrange will disappear? The Python long will also be obsolete, making things more simple. One example in the Tutorial will make a function like irange, or any other better name, acceptable for users: sage: sum(i for i in irange(1,10)) 55 Jaap --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
