[Python-Dev] Re: Trinary Operators (original) (raw)

Eric S. Raymond esr@thyrsus.com
Thu, 6 Feb 2003 18:10:46 -0500

Gary Herron <gherron@islandtraining.com>:

On Thursday 06 February 2003 02:20 pm, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Andrew Koenig <ark@research.att.com>: > > Eric> Yeeeouch. And the proposed n-ary form is even worse. > > > > On the other hand, we already have the problem with list comprehensions: > > > > [f(i) for i in range(n) if g(i)] > > > > Here, every evaluation of f(i) is preceded by an evaluation of g(i). > > Uh...but this is one of the reasons I never liked list comprehensions.

Perhaps because I'm a mathematician, I find the list comprehensions very comfortable. It corresponds quite well with the mathematical notation for defining sets: {2*x | for all x in someSet}

I used to be a matrhematical logician. This doesn't help me like it any better, I'm afraid.

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