Targeting C

[Max Samukha]

On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:16:29 +0200, Pelle M?nsson
<pelle.mansson at gmail.com> wrote:

>Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Yigal Chripun wrote:
>>> On 23/10/2009 13:02, bearophile wrote:
>>>> Chris Nicholson-Sauls:
>>>>
>>>>> I prefer this (Scala):
>>>>> list = list ++ (0 to 10)
>>>>
>>>> That's quite less readable. Scala sometimes has some unreadable 
>>>> syntax. Python has taught me how much useful a readable syntax is :-)
>>>> Designing languages requires to find a balance between several 
>>>> different and opposed needs.
>>>>
>>>> Bye,
>>>> bearophile
>>>
>>> how about this hypothetical syntax:
>>>
>>> list ~= [0..10];
>> 
>> I'm not sure what the type of "list" is supposed to be, but this works 
>> today for arrays:
>> 
>> list ~= array(iota(0, 10));
>> 
>> 
>> Andrei
>What does iota mean?

A sequence of integral numbers. I guess the name comes from APL.