> Personally (and borrowing from Python), I'd prefer something more > like: > > Write "Fa". > Repeat 8 times: > Write "-la".
I actually kind of prefer that, too. Or Repeat 8 times write "-la". I'll think about it. Thank you for suggesting it. On May 20, 3:40 pm, MRAB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 20, 4:20 am, Dave Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > I <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Plus, me getting paid to work on Flaming Thunder is far more > > > > motivating than me not getting paid to work on Python. > > > On May 14, 8:30 pm, John Salerno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > That's truly disappointing. > > > I guess I could have stated that better. Flaming Thunder is a labor > > of love for me. I've programmed in almost every language since > > FORTRAN and Lisp, and Flaming Thunder is the language I've always > > wished the others were. > > > For one example, I've always preferred compiled languages because > > they're faster. So Flaming Thunder is compiled. > > > For another example, I've always preferred languages that are English- > > like because it's easier to return to your code after several years > > and still know what you were doing (and it's easier for someone else > > to maintain your code). > > > For over 5 years I've been working on Flaming Thunder unpaid and on my > > own, getting the back-end up and running. 8-by-8 shotgun cross > > compilers written in assembly language, that can fit all of the > > libraries for both the 32- and 64-bit versions of FreeBSD, Linux, Mac > > OS X and Windows into a single executable file that's less than 180K, > > aren't written overnight. > > > So now that I've released it, it's extremely gratifying that people > > think it's cool enough to actually pay $19 for it. That gives me lots > > of motivation (and buys enough time) for me to add features to it as > > fast as possible. > > > To whit: you pointed out the awkwardness in Python of having to > > declare a for-loop variable when you only wanted to loop a specific > > number of times and didn't need the variable. Last week, Flaming > > Thunder had the same awkwardness. If you wanted to loop 8 times: > > > for i from 1 to 8 do <statement> > > > you still had to use a variable (in this case, i). This week, I've > > added two new for-loop variations that fix that awkwardness, and also > > allow you to explicitly declare an infinite loop without having to > > rely on idiomatic constructs such as while-true. Examples of the two > > new variations (for-forever and for-expression-times): > > > Write "Fa". > > For 8 times do write "-la". > > Personally (and borrowing from Python), I'd prefer something more > like: > > Write "Fa". > Repeat 8 times: > Write "-la". > > > For forever do > > ( > > Write "Do you know the definition of insanity? ". > > Read response. > > ). > > Repeat: > Write "Do you know the definition of insanity? ". > Read response.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list