[Python-Dev] Re: accumulator display syntax

[Nick Coghlan]

Guido van Rossum strung bits together to say:

> except compactness of exprssion.  How frequent is
> 
>   result = 0.0
>   for x in S:
>       result += x**2
> 
> ???
> 
> (I've already said my -1 about your 'sum of ...' proposal.)

Just so this suggestion doesn't get buried in the part of the thread where I was 
getting rather carried away about Greg's 'of' syntax (sorry!).

What about:

   result + x**2 from result = 0.0 for x in S

Essentially short for:
   result = 0.0
   for x in S:
     result = result + x**2

Cheers,
Nick.

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