list comprehension question

Håkan Stenholm hakan.stenholm@REDACTED
Thu Jul 28 21:51:33 CEST 2005


Charles Blair wrote:

>in something like this:
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>[X || X <- lists:seq(1,25)]
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>is the result guaranteed to reflect the order of the generator
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You'll get [1,2,3,4, ... , 25] as expected (I at least have never seen 
anything else), but I can't see that the documentation guarantees this 
in any formal way - except that all examples act in this way and that 
all listcomprehension code I have ever seen appears to assume this.

>, or
>not? 
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>i'm working with a list of randomly generated results, and i want to
>print them in the order in which they were generated--is lists:foreach
>the way to go here? a list comprehension would be simpler to write and
>nicer to look at.
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>thanks.
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