[Python-Dev] Lukewarm about range literals (original) (raw)

Charles G Waldman cgw@fnal.gov
Mon, 28 Aug 2000 23:38:41 -0500 (CDT)

Tim Peters writes:

As the reviewer, I spent about 2 hours playing with it, trying it out in my code. And I simply liked it less the more I used it

That's 2 hours more than I (and probably most other people) spent trying it out.

For 2.0, the question is solely yes-or-no on this specific notation. If it goes in, it will never go away.

This strikes me as an extremely strong argument. If the advantages aren't really all that clear, then adopting this syntax for range literals now removes the possibility to come up with a better way at a later date ("opportunity cost", as the economists say).

The Haskell examples you shared are pretty neat.

FWIW, I retract my earlier +1.