Oct. 21, 2003
7:43 a.m.
Guido:
But the executive summary remains: the generator wins because it doesn't have to materialize the whole list.
But what would happen if the generator were replaced with in-line code that computes the values and feeds them to an accumulator object, such as might result from an accumulator syntax that gets inline-expanded in the same way as a list comp? 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 +--------------------------------------+