Georg Brandl writes:

Am 26.07.2010 10:59, schrieb Anders Sandvig:

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On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 3:31 AM, Gregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org> wrote:

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Yuck. Anyone who feels they need a variable named the same a reserved word simply feels wrong and needs reeducation. [...]

While I agree with you in principle, I have been finding it frustrating trying to calculate yield in my financial applications lately... ;)

In the spirit of optimistic programming, why not assume a large one and call it Yield? ;)

That's certainly more workable than the obvious near-synonym, "return".