[Python-Dev] accumulator display syntax

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Oct 22 23:37:11 EDT 2003


> >     pipe = source
> >     for p in predicates:
> >         pipe = e for e in pipe if ^p(e)
> 
> Bah.  Arbitrary semantics bound to line-noise characters.  Guess what
> that reminds me of. :-)

If anyone can think of anything less line-noisy, I'm
open to suggestions. The important thing is the idea of
explicitly capturing an enclosing binding, however it's
expressed.

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