Terry Reedy wrote:
If we had followed the math precedent, instead of <other computer language>, we would have set builders, list builders, dict builders, and generator builders.
I was intending to suggest something like that back when comprehensions were first being discussed, but people raced ahead and adopted the term "comprehension" before I got the chance. "List builder" and "dict builder" make a lot of sense, but "generator builder" not so much -- it *is* a generator, not something that builds a generator. In fact it doesn't build anything in the sense that the others do. So maybe "generator expression" is the best we could have done. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
