On 10/26/2010 2:31 AM, Xah Lee wrote:
recently wrote a article based on a debate here. (can't find the
original thread on Google at the moment)
• 〈What's List Comprehension and Why is it Harmful?〉
http://xahlee.org/comp/list_comprehension.html
it hit reddit.
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/dw8op/whats_list_comprehension_and_why_is_it_harmful/
though, i don't find the argument there informative.
For python, i can understand that it might be preferred, due to the
special syntax, being more in sync with python because of the
imperative hints in keywords. (e.g. those “for”, “if” in it.) But for
more pure functional lang (e.g. haskell), i think lc is pretty bad.
That's from the functional programming crowd.
Python isn't a functional language. It has some minimal
functional capabilities, and there's a lobby that would like
more. So far, that's mostly been resisted. Attempts to allow
multiline lambdas have been averted. The weird "functional if"
syntax additions were a cave-in to the functional crowd, and may
have been a mistake.
John Nagle
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