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Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 02:07:38 +1100
Subject: Re: List Comprehensions
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On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 1:58 AM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
> If you consider side-effecting comprehensions as kosher,
> then a next conclusion is naturally going to be that
> multiple generator comprehensions are confusing and therefore
> not kosher -- a very unfortunate conclusion IMHO.

Why does that follow? What has that to do with side effects?

ChrisA