http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?list+comprehension "Roy Smith" <roy at panix.com> wrote in message news:roy-9EE81E.13521714062003 at reader1.panix.com... > Why are list comprehensions called what they are? I find the name very > confusing. Is this some standard computer science term? Is it stolen > from some other language?