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by rbehrends 3115 days ago
So, your problem is that Swift's syntax in general isn't to your tastes, not the list comprehension proposal as such? Fair enough, but that's not what you were saying.
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> Fair enough, but that's not what you were saying.

Then tell me, what was I saying?

>> I see very little connection, and I've seen list comprehensions in several different languages.

And then...

> So, your problem is [...] not the list comprehension proposal as such?

...you should get off your high horse. Your juggling with math terminology earlier is not impressive. I know you wanted to sound smart, but you overdid it and got smartass instead.

> Then tell me, what was I saying?

Let me rephrase then: what you seemed to be saying.

> ...you should get off your high horse. Your juggling with math terminology earlier is not impressive.

I'm not sure where you got that impression. I learned about Cartesian products in high school. Everything else I was talking about is at most first year computer science stuff.

I was simply trying to be precise, using the most basic terminology I could think of.