Lazy list/range comprehensions

["Jérôme M. Berger"]

bearophile wrote:
> Jérôme M. Berger:
> 
>> 	Why didn't you write the second like this to keep it functional:
>> result2 = dict (map (lambda x: (x, x*x), xrange (20)))
> 
> Because I've never seen people write it that way, and because for me it's less readable than the normal imperative code.
> 
	Oh, I agree that it's less readable, but wasn't that your point?
After all, the functional list generation with "map" is also less
readable than the corresponding imperative code.

		Jerome
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