index & value (was Re: inclusive-lower-bound, exclusive-upper-bound (was Re: Range Operation pre-PEP))

[Greg Ewing]

Alex Martelli wrote:
> 
> it's gotta be first if it's the only argument:-)

It's also gotta be *last* if it's the only argument. :-)

Nevertheless, putting the index first feels better
to me, at least in Python, probably because it's 
more consistent with [] indexing syntax:

   x.set(i,v)
   x[i] = v

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