Re: Another vote for for loops

On 10 Jan 2005, at 08:19, John Wilson wrote:

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> On 10 Jan 2005, at 07:58, jastrachan@... wrote:
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>> That looks like a bug in the use of ... which we should fix.
>>
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> It's a design problem. There is no way of expressing and empty 
> sequence using the .. notation. This is because of the rule about -ve 
> values in ranges.

But ... is exclusive. So

foo ... foo

should be an empty range, irrespective of the value of foo.

James
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