From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-01-22T10:14:19+09:00
Subject: Re: New to Python: my impression v. Perl/Ruby

On Thursday, January 22, 2004, 7:59:58 AM, GGarramuno wrote:


> for i in (0..i); something; end

> to me has a bunch of advantages over times, step and the such.  With the above
> construct you know that:
> a) i has to be a number

a = 'a'
b = 'z'
# 100 lines of code
for i in (a..b); something; end

> e) you can change the starting point (ie. not start at 0).

The thing I like about #times over #each or 'for' is that you don't
use a needless variable.

  for i in (1..10) ...

  (1..10).each { |i| ...

  (1..10).each { ...

  10.times { ...

If I just want to do something 10 times, why should I involve 'i'?

Gavin