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[Python-Dev] accumulator display syntax

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Oct 22 19:20:28 EDT 2003 
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.

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