[Python-Dev] Iteration variables and list comprehensions

[Eric S. Raymond]

Tim Peters <tim.one@home.com>:
> That's more like Haskell does it.  But the day we explain a Python construct
> in terms of a lambda transformation is the day Guido kills all of us <wink>.

They'll get *my* lambdas when they pry them from my cold, dead fingers <wink>,
but I find I don't have a strong opinion about how the scoping should work.
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