Andrey Popp wrote:
I am not about list comprehension only, there are other cases for where-clause, for example lambdas:
f = lambda x: (x, y) if x > 0 else (x, 0) where y = g(x)
Yuck. This reminds me of why I gave up on the Haskell tutorial I was working through. The reading of this line keeps bouncing back and forth. "OK, function f, passing in x, returning x, y… Wait? What's y? Is that from an external scope? Anyway, here's an if-else clause, and oh, there's the y! It's the same as g(x). OK, so where all did they use y? Hmm, lets see, looks like just the one spot…" This would be much easier to grasp as a function: def f(x): y = g(x) if y > 0: return x, y else: return x, 0 This version makes the parallelism between the two return values much more clear: "Oh, OK, it's always going to return x as the first in the tuple, and the second value will be either g(x) or 0, whichever is greater." We might even re-write it as def f(x): y = g(x) r = y if y > 0 else 0 return x, r to make it shorter. -- Carl