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Re: Newbie: The philosophy behind list indexes

From Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de>
Subject Re: Newbie: The philosophy behind list indexes
Date 2013-06-15 08:42 +0200
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Chris Rebert wrote:

> On Jun 14, 2013 10:26 PM, <ian.l.cameron@gmail.com> wrote:

>> What is the thinking behind stopping 'one short' when slicing or
>> iterating through lists?

> I find Dijkstra's explanation rather convincing:
> http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD831.html

This is the only case where I prefer the pdf ;)

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/ewd08xx/EWD831.PDF

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Newbie: The philosophy behind list indexes ian.l.cameron@gmail.com - 2013-06-14 22:21 -0700
  Re: Newbie: The philosophy behind list indexes Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2013-06-14 22:35 -0700
  Re: Newbie: The philosophy behind list indexes Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-06-15 15:49 +1000
  Re: Newbie: The philosophy behind list indexes Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-06-15 08:42 +0200
  Re: Newbie: The philosophy behind list indexes John Ladasky <john_ladasky@sbcglobal.net> - 2013-06-15 00:19 -0700
  Re: Newbie: The philosophy behind list indexes Olive <not0read0765@yopmail.com> - 2013-06-15 09:44 +0200
  Re: Newbie: The philosophy behind list indexes ian.l.cameron@gmail.com - 2013-06-19 13:46 -0700

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