[Python-Dev] PEP202
Greg Ewing
greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Wed, 26 Jul 2000 15:03:07 +1200 (NZST)
Skip Montanaro <skip@mojam.com> suggested:
> we just allow complete
> statements within list constructors. The semantics would be that any
> objects left on the stack at the end of the statements would constitute the
> elements of the list. Is that too weird?
It's too procedural, and too Forth-like.
I think it's actually an advantage that the iterator clauses don't
look *exactly* like their procedural counterparts, because it's less
likely to fool you into thinking that you can put arbitrary statements
there.
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