[Python-ideas] O –APOO– OWTDI (was: 0-base and 1-base indexed iterables? Custom slicing rules?)

[Ben Finney]

Luciano Ramalho <luciano at ramalho.org>
writes:

> The best answer ever is by one of the most important computer
> scientists of the 20th century, Edsger W. Dijkstra -- who was also
> Dutch, like Guido van Rossum:
>
> https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd08xx/EWD831.PDF

Fascinatingly – to me, at least – Dijkstra's orthography for parenthetic
en dash is the opposite of that Tim Peters used in the thirteenth
aphorism of the Zen of Python.

Dijkstra, EWD831:

    Exclusion of the lower bound –as in a) and b)– forces […]

Peters, Zen of Python:

    There should be one– and preferably only one –obvious way to do it.

How wonderful to see another dimension of combinations for that style
issue, in a Dijkstra paper talking about exploring the dimensions of
another style issue :-)

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Ben Finney