On Jul 18, 6:43 pm, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jul 18, 11:42 pm, ptn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > > > Remember C, where i, j, > > k are indices, p, q, r are pointers, s, t are strings and x, y, z are > > integers. > > Only by convention (even-K&R-v1 C required explicit declarations > almost everywhere), and x etc being used for integers is news to > me ... perhaps you were thinking of m and n. > > The only language I remember that had implicit typing was FORTRAN (GOD > is real, but JESUS is an integer).
Yes, I meant by convention. x is the first name that comes to mind when declaring an unimportant int. Perhaps it's just me. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
