PEP 284, Integer for-loops

[phil hunt]

On Wed, 06 Mar 2002 09:08:57 -0800 (PST), Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shalehperry at attbi.com> wrote:
>I am a little confused.
>
>Your proposal starts with the claim that people are looking for a natural way
>to loop over a range of integers.

How about:

   for i = 1 to 10:

or

   for i is 1 to 10:

I think these are both equally good and both much preferable over 
the horrible

   for 1 <= i <= 10:

which I can only assume is someone's sick idea of a joke.

This syntax could easily be extend, to allow a step other than 1:

   for i = 1 to 10 step 3:


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