functional programming with map()

[David Eppstein]

In article <mailman.1014667482.23800.python-list at python.org>,
 Steven Majewski <sdm7g at virginia.edu> wrote:

> List comprehensions are declarative (no loops) and they avoid side effects
> (no loop variables or temporaries)

No side effects?  Try this:

L = [x for x in range(10)]
print x
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David Eppstein       UC Irvine Dept. of Information & Computer Science
eppstein at ics.uci.edu http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/