Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

@LouisIngenthron Terrifying. The matrices aren't even triangular, so one can't just remember "category
A collides with anything in category A or higher".

How is one supposed to internalize this? When I run into a weird edge case in (say) Python, I can often resolve it by slightly adjusting my mental model (e.g., "the system MAY reuse objects for integer literals, but isn't required to do so") and/or adopting a simple policy to avoid the issue ("never use 'is' to compare ints"). Here it feels like there's always one more special situational exception to memorize.

Is it just me?

@LouisIngenthron I wasn't aware of static GameObjects.

Would it be accurate to say, for this first two of Bond's statements, "Whether this is true depends on whether the objects in question are static"?

It just all seems like such a bottomless morass!

@continue There are two differences:

1) The second version is not legal out of context; you can only use yield inside a function definition.

2) Even if the second is corrected to

def g():
for i in range(3):
for x in foo(i):
yield str(x)

g()

then you get a generator, not a list. It would be equivalent to the first version if you changed the last line to:

list(g())

A more direct translation might be:

result = []
for i in range(3):
for x in foo(i):
result.append(str(x))

result

Your larger point, that the order of the for loops is the same whether you use lists comprehensions or actual nested loops, still holds.

Personally, I avoid this sort of nested comprehension because of just this sort of confusion. It's also counterintuitive because you can't "unpack" it in the usual way by adding brackets.

[str(x) for i in range(3) for x in foo(i)]

does not produce the same result as:

[[str(x) for i in range(3)] for x in foo(i)]

@deinol You have a captain, a first officer, a pilot, and ... a baronet?

How are you liking T5?

@inthehands I am reminded of this cartoon:

http://wondermark.com/609/

@psiie @llewelly @futurebird Yes, they both are.

@futurebird Are you aware of this?

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/156496/march-ants

I haven't played it, but I've met the designer.

@kechpaja @llewelly @futurebird I spotted that after I staged the photo. I could say I was explaining it to the reptile, but honestly it was just a misnake.

@llewelly @futurebird

(I had shorter hair when this photo was taken.)

@TommyvanSon Correction: Battlezone. I think it meets your criteria:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lREYIOdPpc8

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlezone_(1998_video_game)