Dot-comma, anyone? (Re: zip or marry etc)
Greg Ewing
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Mon Jul 24 01:14:41 EDT 2000
Paul Prescod wrote:
>
> Plus, why add syntax when a function will do?
Because of the extra step of mental gymnastics required
to recognise that a zip followed by iteration and
unpacking into a tuple is equivalent to parallel
iteration. I want to be able to write a loop that
*looks* like parallel iteration right from the outset.
I must say I rather like the suggestion of calling
it tuples(). Maybe make it even a bit more explicit,
such as
for x, y in tuplesfrom(a,b):
I'd still rather have a direct parallel iteration
syntax, but I could live with something like that.
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