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