Samuele Pedroni
Michael Hudson wrote:
The history of iterators and generators could be summarized by saying that an API was invented, then it turned out that in practice one way of implementing them -- generators -- was almost universally useful.
This proposal seems a bit like an effort to make generators good at doing something that they aren't really intended -- or dare I say suited? -- for. The tail wagging the dog so to speak.
it is fun because the two of us sort of already had this discussion in compressed form a lot of time ago:
Oh yes. That was the discussion that led to PEP 310 being written.
http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?q=with+generators+pedronis&hl=en
At least I'm consistent :)
not that I was really conviced about my idea at the time which was very embrional, and in fact I'm bit skeptical right now about how much bending or not of generators makes sense, especially for a learnability point of view.
As am I, obviously. Cheers, mwh -- Arrrrgh, the braindamage! It's not unlike the massively non-brilliant decision to use the period in abbreviations as well as a sentence terminator. Had these people no imagination at _all_? -- Erik Naggum, comp.lang.lisp