list index()

[Ben Finney]

Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <bj_666 at gmx.net> writes:

> On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:09:36 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> > It's letting you know that the item isn't in the list. There's no
> > sensible return value from an "index" function in that condition.
> 
> What about -1?  C programmers do this all the time.  :-)

I don't believe you've contradicted me :-)

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