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Re:Why I'm still using Python by pharmakom on Monday January 02, 2023 @08:09AM (#34217474)
That only works in a single purpose function.

And consider this example:

    [
      h1 “items”

      if List.isEmpty items then
        p “No items”
      else
        ul
          [
             for item in items do
               li [ item ]
          ]
    ]
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Re:Why I'm still using Python by snowpid on Monday January 02, 2023 @09:33AM (#34218246)
h1(items) + rest of my code... I might see what are you using for but I am not sure if concenating implicitly (or with line breaks / spaces) is a good design decision for a language.
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Re:Why I'm still using Python by pharmakom on Monday January 02, 2023 @09:55AM (#34218489)
The yield keyword is optional. The result is a List<HtmlElement>

I don’t see how this can be done in Python without using mutation, which makes code scattered across multiple statements

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Re:Why I'm still using Python by snowpid on Monday January 02, 2023 @11:26AM (#34219726)
your example has also multiply statements. The question is more important: Which syntax to a more generally better readability. (as this is solvable in most languages)
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Re:Why I'm still using Python by pharmakom on Monday January 02, 2023 @11:52AM (#34220133)
No, it is built from pure expressions. This means that our list is defined in one block (everything within the [ ] tokens) and immutability is enforced by the compiler.
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