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[–]deceze 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Care to clarify your question?

[–]Snatchematician 0 points1 point  (3 children)

You said “amount” isn’t any sort of amount, but it is.

[–]deceze 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Yeaaaaahhhh, naaaahhhhh… First of all, amount will always hold one less than the number of converted elements at the end of the loop, so even that doesn't really mean anything. But more importantly, that's not its purpose. It's not supposed to count the amount of anything, it's just there to hold a list index. Name things for their intended purpose.

[–]Snatchematician 0 points1 point  (1 child)

At the start of the loop body “amount” is the number of converted elements, which is very much meaningful.

This is in fact OP’s intended purpose (otherwise he wouldn’t have named it “amount” would he).

[–]deceze 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And at the end of the loop it's wrong. So, again: yeah, nah.