Neil Schemenauer <nas@arctrix.com>:
[Tim Peters on adding yet more syntatic sugar]
Available time is finite, and this isn't at the top of the list of things I'd like to see (resuming the discussion of generators + coroutines + iteration protocol comes to mind first).
What's the chances of getting generators into 2.2? The implementation should not be hard. Didn't Steven Majewski have something years ago? Why do we always get sidetracked on trying to figure out how to do coroutines and continuations?
Generators would add real power to the language and are simple enough that most users could benefit from them. Also, it should be possible to design an interface that does not preclude the addition of coroutines or continuations later.
I agree. I think this is a very importand growth direction for the language. -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a> The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. -- H.L. Mencken