Range Operation pre-PEP

[Roman Suzi]

On Wed, 9 May 2001, Rainer Deyke wrote:

>"Bjorn Pettersen" <BPettersen at NAREX.com> wrote in message
>news:mailman.989423654.4836.python-list at python.org...
>>   for i in 0 -> len(seq):
>>       ...
>>
>> I still favor overloading range though...
>
>I favor leaving Python as-is, since this entire thread is about solving a
>non-problem.

The problem is not to make range(len(seq)) shorter, but
to make for loop easier to learn:

right now FUNCTIONS and LISTS are needed to understand
for loop. (Even recursion is "easier" with just FUNCTIONS
to know ;-)

So, I started the thread to:

1. Discuss if the raised problem is "no problem"
2. If the 1. is not true, to discuss syntactic solution.

We seem to drift to no. 2 without questioning no. 1.

>If you want a shorter way of writing 'range(len(x))', you can
>always write your own function.  If there is really a need of such a
>function in '__builtin__', I would prefer that it have a new name.  How
>about 'indexes'?

Sincerely yours, Roman Suzi
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