[Python-Dev] Naming comprehension syntax [was Re: Informal educator feedback on PEP 572 ...]

[Brett Cannon]

On Fri, Jul 6, 2018, 16:32 Guido van Rossum, <guido at python.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 4:19 PM Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
>
>> Since Guido, the first respondent, did not immediately shoot the idea
>> down, I intend to flesh it out and make it more concrete.
>>
>
> Maybe I should have shot it down. The term is entrenched in multiple
> languages by now (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_comprehension).
> Regarding "list builder" one could argue that it would just add more
> confusion, since there's already an unrelated Builder Pattern (
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Builder_pattern) commonly used in Java.
> (Though I worry about the presence of a Python example in that Wikipedia
> page. :-)
>
> Also, "generator builder" is not much more expressive than "generator
> expression", and the key observation that led to this idea was that it's
> such a mouthful to say "comprehensions and generator expressions". Maybe
> it's not too late to start calling the latter "generator comprehensions" so
> that maybe by the year 2025 we can say "comprehensions" and everyone will
> understand we mean all four types?
>
> FWIW more people should start using "list display" etc. for things like
> [a, b, c].
>

I can get behind "generator comprehension" and "list display". The builder
idea isn't doing it for me.

-Brett


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