Samuele Pedroni <pedronis@bluewin.ch>:
"There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it." of course this is the case for generator expressions and list comprehsensions because they are separated by performance characteristics and somehow by the fact that one directly produces a list. I suspect that we have to learn to live with the fact that they are distinguished by (just) that, both a nuisance (sometimes people don't want to bother to choose) and a feature.
I just had a thought. What if generator expressions were allowed *only* as a parameter to a function call? Would that help avoid leading people into the trap of using them where they're not appropriate? Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | A citizen of NewZealandCorp, a | Christchurch, New Zealand | wholly-owned subsidiary of USA Inc. | greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz +--------------------------------------+