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Java's younger cousin C# also has this with Select, Where and Aggregate. But sometimes the foreach and even the for loop actually makes more sense, in particular when dealing with very imperative algorithms or are not acting over a (full) sequence at all.

I'm usually only reading and not writing python but I think list comprehensions are more idiomatic. Based on some comments I've seen here I also kind of get the impression comprhensions are abused.




Well, if you don't want to work with the whole sequence, you can filter it. But yeah, in those cases and some others, the for loop may be more idiomatic and better performing.


Yes I'm talking about being able to stop early for one example. Or if the thing you are dealing with is not actually a sequence for another.


The former can probably be solved for lots of cases by TakeWhile(), which evaluates before consuming more elements and could be used to replace "abort the loop" patterns.

The latter is a different thing..

1: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb534804.aspx


"Java's younger cousin C#"

We prefer the terms:

"brother by a different mother"

or if they're being naughty:

"red headed step-child".


s/naughty/stupid




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