[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 279

[Guido van Rossum]

[Tim]
> Bingo.  If you want coroutines, design a coroutine facility.  Piling
> more semantics on to "yield" takes a delightfully simple yet
> powerful gimmick and hides it under ten kinds of obscurity.

Raymond, don't say I didn't warn you: I'm going to reject the throw()
addition and the parameter passing PEP (if you ever write it) based on
Tim's comments here.  So you can save yourself time by not writing the
PEP, or (if you insist on writing it) by making it ready for rejection
(like PEP 666).

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)