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List comprehension

A list comprehension is a syntactic construct available in some programming languages for creating a list based on existing lists. It follows the form of the mathematical set-builder notation (set comprehension) as distinct from the use of map and filter functions.

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related to Haskell · 9
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related to Python · 7
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related to C++ · 5
List comprehension → Alternatively, DSL, Historically, STL, This
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List comprehension → Comprehensions, Python CookbookDiscussion, Scheme, SQL-like
related to Set comprehension · 4
List comprehension → Python, Racket, Similar, The Python
related to Dictionary comprehension · 3
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List comprehension → syntactic construct available in some programming languages for creating a list based on existing lists

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