[Python-Dev] zip() and list-comprehension with commas
Eric S. Raymond
esr@thyrsus.com
Wed, 12 Jul 2000 19:42:52 -0400
Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>:
> "Stitch" and "with" are okay, but I'd like to hear someone debunk the
> names used today by MAL. They seemed very logical to me. I'd just change
> the semantics to be lazy in a couple of cases.
I would be happy with weave(), with(), or MAL's names. I think zip
is best avoided for reasons already discussed.
--
<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr">Eric S. Raymond</a>
"...quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est."
[...a sword never kills anybody; it's a tool in the killer's hand.]
-- (Lucius Annaeus) Seneca "the Younger" (ca. 4 BC-65 AD),