Jan. 26, 2004
3:52 p.m.
On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 10:51, Guido van Rossum wrote:
I'm happy to see progress on the generator expressions implementation, but I think the specification of namespaces, which is just a sketch, might be simplified.
Ouch! Where were you when this PEP was discussed on python-dev? I was originally strongly in your camp, but Tim and several others convinced me that in every single case where a generator expression has a free variable, you want early binding, not late.
I guess I was busy with other things. I'm sorry I missed the discussion, but if it was at all substantial, the PEP didn't do a good job of capturing it. Jeremy