is list comprehension necessary?

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message <4cc701e7$0$1606$742ec2ed at news.sonic.net>, John Nagle wrote:

> The weird "functional if" syntax additions were a cave-in to the
> functional crowd, and may have been a mistake.

The only mistake was not putting functional-if into the language in the 
first place, and having to use that strange inside-out syntax to add it.