On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:16:29 +0200, Pelle M?nsson <pelle.mans...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >> Yigal Chripun wrote: >>> On 23/10/2009 13:02, bearophile wrote: >>>> Chris Nicholson-Sauls: >>>> >>>>> I prefer this (Scala): >>>>> list = list ++ (0 to 10) >>>> >>>> That's quite less readable. Scala sometimes has some unreadable >>>> syntax. Python has taught me how much useful a readable syntax is :-) >>>> Designing languages requires to find a balance between several >>>> different and opposed needs. >>>> >>>> Bye, >>>> bearophile >>> >>> how about this hypothetical syntax: >>> >>> list ~= [0..10]; >> >> I'm not sure what the type of "list" is supposed to be, but this works >> today for arrays: >> >> list ~= array(iota(0, 10)); >> >> >> Andrei >What does iota mean? A sequence of integral numbers. I guess the name comes from APL.
