On 10/03/2010 10:37 AM, bearophile wrote:
Peter Alexander:

Out of curiosity, what syntax did you propose?

http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=73868



That said, the current D way of writing it isn't all that different
from Python:

return reduce!("a+b")(map!("a*a")(sequence), 0);

That's many times worse than the Python syntax.

This entails there's a way to measure that. How?

Array/range comprehensions are syntax sugar, their point is to give
something clean and readable that helps chunking:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunking_%28psychology%29

You'd need to bring a pointer to a document that confirms that (and how) array and range comprehensions have helping chunking as their point. I googled for

array comprehensions help chunking

to no avail.


Andrei

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