[Python-3000] sets in P3K?

[Alex Martelli]

On 4/25/06, Josiah Carlson <jcarlson at uci.edu> wrote:
   ...
> If list comprehensions didn't come first (and even though list
> comprehensions came first), I would argue that there should only be
> generator expressions.  If one wants a list comprehension, one should
> use list(genexp).  Obviously it would have clear implications of the
> non-starting of {genexp} for set, frozenset, and/or dict comprehensions.

I entirely agree, as, it appears to me from his posts to this thread,
does Raymond; however, Guido thinks our shared preference is atypical,
as he posted on this thread 24 hours ago:
"""
On 4/24/06, Alex Martelli <aleaxit at gmail.com> wrote:
> I dislike that as much as I dislike [<genexp>] as a shorthand for
> list(<genexp>), but I have no trouble admitting that if we have the
> [...] form, it's consistent to have the {...} one too.

I think you're atypical in that dislike.
"""

I'm not sure if it really matters at all (to Guido's decision) whether
this preference is more widespread than he thinks, or just an atypical
quirk shared just by Carlson, Hettinger and Martelli; if it does
matter, I guess that organizing some kind of "straw popularity poll"
is not too hard.


Alex