[Python-ideas] "While" suggestion

[Steven Bethard]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> The results of the expressions are their semantics.  When you write 547 +
> 222, the semantics is the result 769, not the internal implementation of how
> a particular interpreter arrives at that.

I see we have a very different definition of semantics. For me, the
semantics of ``547 + 222`` are different from ``1538 / 2 are different
from 769 because the operations the interpreter goes through are
different. Given that by "semantics" you mean, "result of the
expression", I can happily conceded that the result of the expression
of list(<genexp>) is the same as [<listcomp>].

Steve
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