[Tutor] list as a first class citizen in python? [language
comparisons!]
Danny Yoo
dyoo@hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu
Wed, 26 Dec 2001 00:29:59 -0800 (PST)
> But to get the same thing to work in Perl, we have to think twice. A
> first attempt:
>
> ###
> ## test.pl.
> sub buggy_myzip {
> my (@l1, @l2) = @_;
> my @results;
> for my $i (0..scalar(@l1)) {
^^^^^^^^^^
Yikes. This is buggy for another reason. Python's range() function is
exclusive: it goes up to, but doesn't include the right endpoint:
###
>>> range(0, 10)
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
###
However, Perl's equivlant expression does include that right endpoint.
Sorry, I forgot! This line should have been:
### Perl
for my $i (0..#@l1)) {
###