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Yes though Python has list comprehensions too :)

I should have picked a different example -- the idea I was trying to get across was that mutability within a loop is useful.

Here’s a similar question I asked with Python vs. OCaml and Lisp. Short-circuiting loops seems to cause the code to become fairly ugly in functional languages

https://old.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/puao1...



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