>>>>> "Jeremy" == Jeremy Bowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jeremy> On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 22:59:12 -0700, Robert Kern wrote:
>> Never. If you really need a list
>>
>> list(x*x for x in xrange(10))
>>
>> Sadly, we can't remove list comprehensions until 3.0.
Jeremy> Why "remove" them? Instead, we have these things called
Jeremy> "comprehensions" (which, now that I say that, seems a
Jeremy> rather odd name), and you can control whether they result
Jeremy> in a list or a generator with () or [].
Still, list comprehensions should be implemented in terms of genexps
to get rid of the LC variable that is visible outside the scope of the
LC.
Jeremy> should be relatively simple), it's not worth breaking that
Jeremy> code.
Well, the code that relies on the dangling variable deserves to break.
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