Guido van Rossum wrote:
- There really isn't anything "broken" about the current situation; it's just that "next" is the only method name mapped to a slot in the type object that doesn't have leading and trailing double underscores.
Are you saying the _only_ reason to rename it is for consistency with the other type slot method names? That's really weak, IMHO, and not worth any kind of backwards incompatibility (which seems unavoidable).
Neil
Almost. This means that we're retroactively saying that all objects with a next method are iterators, thereby slightly stomping on the user's namespace. But as long a you don't use such an object as an iterator, it's harmless. And if my position wasn't clear already, I agree it's not worth "fixing". :-) --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)