[Cython] Fix for #196 (for loop bug)

[Lisandro Dalcin]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn
<dagss at student.matnat.uio.no> wrote:
> I think so -- the for-from loop is a C idiom from which one can expect C
> behaviour from my perspective, and if this has been the behaviour so far
> then backward compatability alone speaks against altering it. The range
> optimization has been around for much shorter and clearly should behave
> as Python range, so that story is different.
>

Indeed. I've wrote code where the C semantics is assumed.

> (Well, my real perspective is that for-from should be deprecated and
> removed prior to a 1.0 release, but let's not have that war now :-) )
>

No please! Again, the C semantics is useful in some cases, and
removing it will make a lot of code out there stop compiling.


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