Declarative programming
- let’s declare the control flow implicitly rather then imperatively
def square_and_sum(lst):
return sum(i**2 for i in lst if i % 2 == 0)
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didn't specify a loop, barely specified an
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this is probably closer to how you thought about the problem in the first place
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pro: more concise, less syntactic sugar
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con: more concise, less syntactic sugar
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other examples: SQL queries for database, matplotlib for plotting rather than manually coding the pdf file