[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote at 21:52 8/1/2005: >Quoting Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Why are list comprehensions called that? > >Because that's what they're called in Haskell, I guess..
This Haskell, I suppose? <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_programming_language> >It's historical, based on the term "set comprehension" from mathematics, >also >known as "set builder notation": >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_comprehension And I was a math major.. Thanks! Dick _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
