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Re: How clean/elegant is Python's syntax?

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On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 3:12 AM, rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
> You associate the primal (f)act of thinking about programming with
> *doing* the generating.
> By contrast the functional programmer thinks about what *is* the
> result.

I wish you'd explain that to my boss :) He often has trouble
understanding why sometimes I put two syntactic statements on one
line, such as:

for (int i=0;i<nfoo;++i) if (foo[i].marker)
{
    //do something with foo[i]
}

In Python, that would probably be done with a list comprehension or
some other form of filtered iteration, and is to my mind a single
operation - "iterate over all the marked foo" is just as much a valid
loop header as "iterate over all the foo". This is a simple example,
and what you say about thinking about what *is* the result doesn't
really translate well into a C++ example, but the broader concept
applies: there's a difference between code as the compiler/interpreter
sees it and code as the programmer sees it, and there is not always a
1:1 correspondence of statements.

ChrisA

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Re: How clean/elegant is Python's syntax? Ma Xiaojun <damage3025@gmail.com> - 2013-05-30 02:37 +0800
  Re: How clean/elegant is Python's syntax? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-05-30 06:18 +0000
    Re: How clean/elegant is Python's syntax? Ma Xiaojun <damage3025@gmail.com> - 2013-05-30 16:54 +0800
      Re: How clean/elegant is Python's syntax? rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-05-30 10:12 -0700
        Re: How clean/elegant is Python's syntax? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-31 03:28 +1000
          Re: How clean/elegant is Python's syntax? rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-05-30 10:59 -0700
            Re: How clean/elegant is Python's syntax? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-31 04:22 +1000
        Re: How clean/elegant is Python's syntax? Ma Xiaojun <damage3025@gmail.com> - 2013-05-31 01:46 +0800
        Re: How clean/elegant is Python's syntax? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-31 03:50 +1000
        Re: How clean/elegant is Python's syntax? Ma Xiaojun <damage3025@gmail.com> - 2013-05-31 01:50 +0800
        Re: How clean/elegant is Python's syntax? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-05-30 19:36 +0000
    Re: How clean/elegant is Python's syntax? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2013-05-30 17:30 -0600

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