[Python-Dev] Re: Trinary Operators

[Eric S. Raymond]

Gary Herron <gherron@islandtraining.com>:
> On Thursday 06 February 2003 02:20 pm, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> > Andrew Koenig <ark@research.att.com>:
> > > Eric> Yeeeouch.  And the proposed n-ary form is even worse.
> > >
> > > On the other hand, we already have the problem with list comprehensions:
> > >
> > >         [f(i) for i in range(n) if g(i)]
> > >
> > > Here, every evaluation of f(i) is preceded by an evaluation of g(i).
> >
> > Uh...but this is one of the reasons I never liked list comprehensions.
> 
> Perhaps because I'm a mathematician, I find the list comprehensions
> very comfortable.  It corresponds quite well with the mathematical
> notation for defining sets: {2*x | for all x in someSet}

I used to be a matrhematical logician.  This doesn't help me like it
any better, I'm afraid.
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