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Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 07:51:16 +1100
Subject: Re: Experiences/guidance on teaching Python as a first programming language
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Gregory Ewing
<greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> A piece of code such as
>
>    for (i = 0; i < numThings; i++)
>       total[i] += things[i];
>
> is NOT improved by rewriting it as
>
>    for (theLoopIndex = 0; theLoopIndex < numThings; theLoopIndex++)
>       total[theLoopIndex] += things[theLoopIndex];
>
> Quite the reverse, IMO.

Wholeheartedly agreed. The only improvement I would make would be to
declare i in the if block (valid in C++ and some of the more recent C
standards), to emphasize the locality of the variable.

ChrisA