Fwd: Array comprehension syntax

[Jason Orendorff]

On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Brendan Eich <brendan at mozilla.org> wrote:
> Perhaps the thing to do is keep to Python: for+ if? if you get my
> pidgin-EBNF.

But that isn't Python's syntax.
Python's comprehensions are:  for (for|if)*

Haskell's comprehensions are:  (for|if|let)*
This is what I would prefer for JS.

Clojure's comprehensions are:  for+ (if|while|let)*
Clojure puts the expression at the right, which I like, for the
reasons Allen mentioned.

CoffeeScript's comprehensions are:  for when?
Only a single 'for' clause. It can't be used to flatten an array of arrays.

I actually kind of like Allen's argument about not wanting to
encourage the use of array comprehensions for complicated use cases.
However I'm not sure how that squares with a distaste for nanny syntax
restrictions!  :)

-j