From: Ville Vainio <ville@...>
Date: 2004-04-02T04:24:22+09:00
Subject: Re: deciding between ruby and python

>>>>> "Hal" == Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> writes:

    Hal> I'm prepared to admit you are right, since I don't know
    Hal> Python.

That's a commendable attitude.

    Hal> file, length, name, title = [' '.join(t.split()) for t in
    Hal> line.split('|')]

    Hal> This seems neither OO nor functional style to me. What do you
    Hal> think?

Funny, because it's very much both. join and split are string methods,
and the overall structure is a List Comprehension.

List comprehension is like

[ i+1 for i in [1,2,3] ] 

which yields the list

[2,3,4]

List comprehensions come from Haskell (www.haskell.org) which is
considered a functional language, at least where I come from ;-).

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