removing list comprehensions in Python 3.0

[John Roth]

"George Sakkis" <gsakkis at rutgers.edu> wrote in message 
news:1120927567.463458.289770 at g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...

> It's funny how one of the
> arguments for removing lambda -- you can do the same by defining a
> named function -- does not apply for list comprehensions.

Which is a point a number of people have made many times,
with about as much effect as spitting into the wind.

Making a piece of functionality less convenient simply to
satisfy someone's sense of language esthetics doesn't seem
to me, at least, to be a really good idea.

John Roth


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