What about an EXPLICIT naming scheme for built-ins?

[Mel Wilson]

In article <mailman.2905.1094405220.5135.python-list at python.org>,
Alex Martelli <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote:
>I don't understand why some people want to use list comprehensions
>instead of simple calls to list().

   It's one more damned word to read.  It under-uses the
ability to notice visual patterns like  = [  or  +  . It's one
step down the slope toward lisp, or to mathematics before
algebraic notation, when everything was written out longhand
in Greek.

        Regards.        Mel.