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by dozzie 3115 days ago
> 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.

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> 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.