[Python-Dev] next(arg) was: Anonymous blocks: Thunks or iterators?
Jim Jewett
jimjjewett at gmail.com
Fri Apr 29 19:48:57 CEST 2005
Guido van Rossum:
> One [of many separate ideas in PEP 340] is turning generators
> into more general coroutines: continue EXPR passes the expression
> to the iterator's next() method ...
I would have been very happy with that a week ago. Seeing the
specific implementation changed my mind.
The caller shouldn't know what state the generator is in, so the
passed-in-message will be the same regardless of which yield
accepts it. Unless I have a single-yield generator, this means
I end up writing boilerplate code to accept and process the arg
at each yield. I don't want more boilerplate.
> Even without a block-statement, these two changes make yield look a
> lot like invoking a thunk
Though it feels backwards to me; yield is returning control to something
that already had to coordinate the thunks itself.
-jJ
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