Gareth McCaughan <gmccaughan at synaptics-uk.com>: > "Aussonderungsaxiom" is the axiom of *separation*[1], which is > a weakened version of the (disastrous) axiom of *comprehension*. > In terms of Python's listcomps, comprehension would be [x if P(x)] Actually, my original implementation of list comps *did* allow you to write that -- although it didn't try to loop over all possible values of x, fortunately. :-) It was Guido who (probably fairly wisely, even though I didn't agree at the time) decided there had to be a "for" in there. Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | A citizen of NewZealandCorp, a | Christchurch, New Zealand | wholly-owned subsidiary of USA Inc. | greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz +--------------------------------------+
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