[Python-Dev] The iterator story

[Guido van Rossum]

> If you only have ten seconds read this:
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> Guido, i believe i understand your position.  My interpretation is:
> 
>     I'd like "iterate destructively" and "iterate non-destructively"
>     to be spelled differently.  You don't.
> 
>     I'd like to be able to establish conventions so that "x in y"
>     doesn't destroy y.  This isn't so important to you.
> 
> We have a difference of opinion.  I don't think we have a failure in
> understanding.  If the opinions won't change, we might as well move on.
> I did not mean to waste your time, only to achieve understanding.

Aye, aye, Sir.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)