On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 08:33:40AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 14:07, Pigeon wrote: > > > > - There isn't an explicit end-of-block delimiter. A tab to start a > > block; what ends it? A tab that isn't there? Yuck. > > As a long-time Python programmer, I must say, "Huh?". What's > so hard about this: > i = 1 > for i in range(10): > i = i * i > print i Actually, that's quite a good example. Expectations lead me to misinterpret that on my first pass: initially it looks like the standard for loop to print squares of numbers from 1 to 10 that comes shortly after "Hello world" in the introduction to more or less any language, slightly misindented and missing the termination of the for loop. But it isn't, is it - it throws away all the intermediate squares and only prints the last one. (runs it to check conclusions) Oh, that's interesting - the for loop's running from 0 to 9, so it prints "81", not "100". (makes a guess) ...and our standard print-squares-from-1-to-10 example seems to be: for i in range(1,11): i = i * i print i > You'd get used to The Python Way really quickly. Everyone does. Sure, familiarity counts for a lot, as the above example illustrates. > > Guess I'll be sticking to C for a while yet... > > Try Python. You might like it. Really! Given that my guess of how to make the for loop run from 1 to 10 was right first time without looking at any docs, I'm inclined to believe you may have a point there! -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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