On Tuesday 21 October 2003 06:34 pm, Skip Montanaro wrote: ...
would like to toss one of each. The list comprehension syntax seems the more obvious (to me) syntax to keep while it would appear there are some advantages to the lazy list comprehension semantics (enumerate (parts of) infinite sequences, better memory usage, some performance improvements).
Yes to both points. Hmmm...
should look at other alternatives which don't introduce new syntax, including morphing list comprehensions into lazy list comprehensions or
...as long as this can be done WITHOUT breaking a ton of my code...
leaving lazy list comprehensions out of the language, at least in 2.x. As
Eeek. Maybe. Sigh. 3 years or so (best case, assuming 2.4 is the last of the 2.*'s) before I can teach and deploy lazy comprehensions?-( Hmmm... what about skipping 2.4, and making a beeline for 3.0...?-) Alex