[sage-devel] Re: 1 or 0 that's the question

2007-09-18 Thread Hamptonio
I have very mixed feelings about this. I am a mathematician, definitely not a CS person, but I think people just need to get used to the behavior of range. It took me a while to adjust, but the benefits of learning python were well worth it. I think the preparser should be as minimal as possibl

[sage-devel] Re: 1 or 0 that's the question

2007-09-18 Thread Jaap Spies
Martin Albrecht wrote: > On Tuesday 18 September 2007, John Cremona wrote: [...] >> >> Sorry if this sounds negative, but I have a feeling that sage-devel >> has more CS people in it than mathematicians! > > The main issue is: Starting at 1 cannot be done if you want to keep using > Python, i.e.