I borrowed 'display' from the formal definition of ABC. It's still used in the quick reference: http://homepages.cwi.nl/~steven/abc/qr.html#EXPRESSIONS . I hadn't heard it before and didn't think to research its heritage. I like it for list/set/dict displays since it's rather a stretch to call those literals (they can contain expressions after all). I don't think of a comprehension as a display though (even though it's syntactically related).
On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 9:04 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 3 December 2015 at 14:26, Laura Creighton <l...@openend.se> wrote: > > Am I missing something important about the 'display' language? > > It's a term that's used in the lisp and/or functional programming > communities, I believe. And I think I recollect that something similar > is used in (mathematical) set theory So it's not completely an > invented term. > > But that's not to say it's particularly obvious in this context... > Paul > _______________________________________________ > 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/guido%40python.org > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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