Laura Creighton writes: > Am I missing something important about the 'display' language?
A display is a constructor that looks like a literal but isn't. It is syntactically like the printed output, but may contain expressions to be evaluated at runtime as well as compile-time constant expressions that can be "folded". I find it useful to have a single word that means that, and can't think of a better one. I suppose "display" was chosen because the syntax is intended to "look like" the constructed object (ie, its printable representation). A comprehension corresponds to what is often called "set-builder notation" for sets; it doesn't look like the print representation. I'd be perfectly happy to include comprehensions in the concept of display, but Guido says no, and I'm happy to have them be different too. :-) I don't know if you missed any of that, I don't claim that it's terribly important, and Your Mileage May Vary, but it works for me. :-) BTW, I don't care if usage is consistent in this case. I like consistency, but insisting on it here would be an Emersonian hobgoblin IMO (again, YMMV). _______________________________________________ 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
