Proposed new syntax

Tim Chase python.list at tim.thechases.com
Sun Aug 13 17:55:08 EDT 2017


On 2017-08-14 00:36, Steve D'Aprano wrote:
> Python's comprehensions are inspired by Haskell's, but we made
> different choices than they did: we make the fact that a
> comprehension is a loop over values explicit, rather than implicit,
> and we use words instead of cryptic symbols.

I keep wanting to like Haskell for some of the concepts &
optimizations it can do, but the whole "words instead of cryptic
symbols" readability thing keeps me coming back to Python.

-tkc








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