20 Jul
2020
20 Jul
'20
7:36 a.m.
On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 03:22 Jonathan Fine
This is a continuation of my previous post to this thread.
Python's FOR ... ELSE ... , Raymond Hettinger has told us, has origins in some ideas of Don Knuth.
That’s news to me (both that it’s due to Knuth and that Raymond said so). I invented it without awareness of prior art, by reasoning about the similarity between IF and WHILE (FOR followed from WHILE). —Guido -- --Guido (mobile)