On Fri, Jul 6, 2018, 16:32 Guido van Rossum, <gu...@python.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 4:19 PM Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > >> Since Guido, the first respondent, did not immediately shoot the idea >> down, I intend to flesh it out and make it more concrete. >> > > Maybe I should have shot it down. The term is entrenched in multiple > languages by now (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_comprehension). > Regarding "list builder" one could argue that it would just add more > confusion, since there's already an unrelated Builder Pattern ( > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Builder_pattern) commonly used in Java. > (Though I worry about the presence of a Python example in that Wikipedia > page. :-) > > Also, "generator builder" is not much more expressive than "generator > expression", and the key observation that led to this idea was that it's > such a mouthful to say "comprehensions and generator expressions". Maybe > it's not too late to start calling the latter "generator comprehensions" so > that maybe by the year 2025 we can say "comprehensions" and everyone will > understand we mean all four types? > > FWIW more people should start using "list display" etc. for things like > [a, b, c]. > I can get behind "generator comprehension" and "list display". The builder idea isn't doing it for me. -Brett > -- > --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) > _______________________________________________ > 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/brett%40python.org >
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