On Apr 5, 2008, at 15:07 , John M. Dlugosz wrote:
What is a "list comprehension"? I've seen that term bantered around here.
The term comes from Haskell and Python; it's a shorthand notation for list generation and filtering.
[x | x <- some expression involving y, y = some range expression] -- haskell syntax
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