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Re: Why 'for', not 'from' ?

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Jun 03, 2003
• 391 views

In the English language, the word 'from' can be used to indicate the 
'source' of some thing, or a starting point (particularly in a travel 
context).

A famous phrase is "From here to eternity".

To use 'from' in the context of a auto-increment loop construct, you might 
get away with ...

   with x FROM 1 to 10 do
   . . .
   end with

But to place 'from' at the start of a phrase in English, indicates that you 
are trying to identify the source of something. So ...

   from x = 1 to 10 do
   . . .
   end from

Sounds to an English speaker as if you are getting something out of 'x' or 
maybe start with x. You might be able to convince that person that you mean 
"from the set of numbers, 1 to 10, ..." but that is pushing it a bit.

-- 

cheers,
Derek Parnell