On 29/01/13 00:33, Wolfgang Maier wrote:
Dear all, I guess this is so obvious that someone must have suggested it before: in list comprehensions you can currently exclude items based on the if conditional, e.g.:
[n for n in range(1,1000) if n % 4 == 0]
Why not extend this filtering by allowing a while statement in addition to if, as in:
[n for n in range(1,1000) while n< 400]
Comprehensions in Clojure have this feature. http://clojuredocs.org/clojure_core/clojure.core/for ;; :when continues through the collection even if some have the ;; condition evaluate to false, like filter user=> (for [x (range 3 33 2) :when (prime? x)] x) (3 5 7 11 13 17 19 23 29 31) ;; :while stops at the first collection element that evaluates to ;; false, like take-while user=> (for [x (range 3 33 2) :while (prime? x)] x) (3 5 7) So there is precedent in at least one other language for this obvious and useful feature. -- Steven