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Are we just having fun here?

Or might we actually start using a new naming convention for
the-syntax-formerly-known-as-generator-expressions?

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\> On Jul 3, 2018, at 11:54 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
\>
\> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
\>> - list builder syntax is syntax which returns a list;
\>> - dict builder syntax is syntax which returns a dict;
\>> - set builder syntax is syntax which returns a set;
\>> - generator builder syntax is syntax which returns a generator.
\>
\> You only get a list/dict/set from the first three after
\> you've run the iterators within it, but with a generator
\> expression, you already have a generator before you've
\> run it. That makes it feel different to me.
\>
\> --
\> Greg
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