Robert Uhl wrote: > Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Speaking as somebody who programmed in FORTH for a while, that doesn't > > impress me much. Prefix/postfix notation is, generally speaking, more > > of a pain in the rear end than it is worth, even if it saves you a > > tiny bit of thought when pasting code. > > Of course, you use prefix notation all the time in Python: > > for x in range(0,len(y)): > dosomething(x)
In Python, most containers are directly iterable so we are much more likely to arrange our program to use: for a in y: dosomethingwith(a) -Paddy. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
