On 17-okt-03, at 22:20, Skip Montanaro wrote:
All the more reason not to like this. Why not just define the generator function and call it?
While Perl sprouts magical punctuation, turning its syntax into line noise, Python seems to be sprouting multiple function-like things. We have
* functions * unbound methods * bound methods * generator functions * iterators (currently invisible via syntax, but created by calling a generator function?) * instances magically callable via __call__
and now this new (rather limited) syntax for creating iterators.
And you even forget lambda:-) I agree with Skip here: there's all this magic that crept into Python since 2.0 (approximately) that really hampers readability to novices. And here I mean novices in the wide sense of the word, i.e. including myself (novice to the new concepts). Some of these look like old concepts but are really something completely different (generators versus functions), some are really little more than keystroke savers (list comprehensions). -- Jack Jansen, <Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl>, http://www.cwi.nl/~jack If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution -- Emma Goldman