Generator syntax (Re: FW: FW: [Python-Dev] Simple generator implementation)

[Greg Ewing]

>     def generate_kids(self):  # pre-order traversal
>         suspend self.value
>         for kid in self.children:
>             for itskids in kid.generate_kids():
>                 suspend itskids

Can I make a suggestion: If we're going to get this generator
stuff, I think it would read better if the suspending statement
were

   yield x

rather than

   suspend x

because x is not the thing that we are suspending!

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