Lazy list/range comprehensions

[bearophile]

Peter Alexander:

> Out of curiosity, what syntax did you propose?

http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=73868


> That said, the current D way of writing it isn't all that different from Python:
> 
> return reduce!("a+b")(map!("a*a")(sequence), 0);

That's many times worse than the Python syntax. Array/range comprehensions are syntax sugar, their point is to give something clean and readable that helps chunking:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunking_%28psychology%29

Bye,
bearophile