Dear Dr Jon D Harrop, “List Comprehension” is a special concise syntax form that generates lists, as a way to save typing such as for loops. It is primarily a jargon bandied about by programers which have contributed huge misunderstandings and miscommunications. The extensiveness of this particular jargon's harm has also encroached into functional programing languages as to cause irregular syntax and less powerful semantics. The utility of “list comprehension” is just a (normal) function designed to generate list.
References: • A exposition of list comprehension in Python. http://xahlee.org/perl-python/list_comprehension.html • Jargons of Info Tech Industry http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/jargons.html Xah [EMAIL PROTECTED] ∑ http://xahlee.org/ Jon Harrop wrote: > David Hopwood wrote: > > That's consistent with the behaviour of list comprehensions in other > > languages -- including "set/tuple formers" in SETL > > <http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~bacon/setl-doc.html>, which I believe was the > > first language to support them. I don't know of any language where > > a list comprehension with multiple loops creates nested lists. > > I'm not entirely sure what a list comprehension is, but Mathematica might be > an example of a language in which multiple loops create nested lists. > > -- > Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy > http://www.ffconsultancy.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
