python for loop

[Lou Pecora]

In article <91t6t4hfjicgvdrcgkhdjfro3ko3ktum8l at 4ax.com>,
 Lada Kugis <lada.kugis at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 00:40:17 -0700 (PDT), Carl Banks
> <pavlovevidence at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> >Lada,
> >
> >I am also an engineer, and I can tell your idea of intuitive is not
> >universal, even among engineers.  I certainly do not lean toward one-
> >based indexing.
> >
> >From a programming standpoint--and remember Python is a programming
> >language--zero-based indexing eliminates the need for a whole lot of
> >extra +1s and -1s when indexing, slicing, and iterating, a lot more
> >than it causes, and that is worth the "cost".  This might not be
> >apparent to you if you never tried seriously taking advantage of
> >indexing from zero, or if your programming experience is very narrow.
> >These both seem to be true for you, so you'll just have to take my
> >word for it.
> 
> 
> You have repeated several cs based points already stated. But apart
> from a programming standpoint - could you give a few examples, where
> "on paper" (as to avoid stepping into "programmer's territory") zero
> indexing could be more intuitive ?

This has become a moving target.  I thought your original complaint was 
about Python (the programming language) vs. Fortran (the programming 
language) and C (the programming language used in an odd way).

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-- Lou Pecora