[Python-ideas] Assignments in list/generator expressions

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Apr 12 02:10:36 CEST 2011


Nick Coghlan wrote:
> It isn't that it
> breaks existing libraries, it breaks database programmers' *brains*,
> because "where" is the SQL keyword for filtering.

The SQL usage is a special case of the more general way it's
used in mathematics. I don't think database programmers can
expect to hijack the term and force everyone else to follow
their own particular interpretation of it.

-- 
Greg



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