Counting nested loop iterations

Diez B. Roggisch deets at nospam.web.de
Fri Mar 17 09:31:13 EST 2006


> Which is utterly counter-intuitive, the opposite of Perl, and remains
> one of the most confusing and surprising things I have encountered in
> Python so far.

AFAIK stems from mathematics where you write things like

{y | \forall x \in X : \forall y \in x }

And so many people consider it pretty natural/intuitive. After all, we read
from left to right, and making something depend from something yet to be
introduced is counter-intuitive in my book. YMMV though.

Diez




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