From: Phlip <phlip_cpp@...>
Date: 2002-09-01T23:18:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby aesthetics

>>  Ruby:  squares_less_than_10 = numbers.find_all{|i| i<10}.map{|i| i^2}

> I like list comprehensions (they're somewhat Haskell-ish), but, as many of
> my pythonesque friends have stated, "they're not very true to python's
> syntax." And, in this form, perhaps a little ugly.

But I suspect someone could bottle that cranky syntax up into a function 
called "comprehend" taking a list and a lambda, no?

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