List comprehensions

[Magnus L. Hetland]

Dan Schmidt <dfan at harmonixmusic.com> writes:

> mlh at vier.idi.ntnu.no (Magnus L. Hetland) writes:
[...]
> You know, I'm only half kidding when I say that the syntax for that
> second type of loop should be
> 
>     P = [(x, y) for x in X while y in Y]

It's not that bad :)

However - it has a temporality to it that I don't think fits the
sentence... I think "for all xs in X and ys in Y, do something"
is quite standard english, yet "for all xs in X while ys in Y, do
something" sounds a bit silly...

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