Dot-comma, anyone? (Re: zip or marry etc)
Cliff Crawford
cjc26 at nospam.cornell.edu
Fri Jul 21 18:07:25 EDT 2000
* Greg Ewing <see at my.signature> menulis:
|
| For one thing, it would make it easier to implement
| parallel iteration efficiently. When I write
|
| for x,y in zip(a,b):
|
| I'm just trying to express the way the iteration is
| to be carried out. I don't really mean that I want the
| zip of the two lists to be computed first and then
| iterated over.
Maybe we could specify that zip() is lazy, like in Haskell, or else
define another function called xzip() (parallel to xrange()) which is
the lazy version of zip().
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