[Python-Dev] next(arg) was: Anonymous blocks: Thunks or iterators?

[Guido van Rossum]

[Guido van Rossum]
> > One [of many separate ideas in PEP 340] is turning generators
> > into more general coroutines: continue EXPR passes the expression
> > to the iterator's next() method ...

[Jim Jewett]
> I would have been very happy with that a week ago.  Seeing the
> specific implementation changed my mind.
> 
> The caller shouldn't know what state the generator is in, so the
> passed-in-message will be the same regardless of which yield
> accepts it.  Unless I have a single-yield generator, this means
> I end up writing boilerplate code to accept and process the arg
> at each yield.  I don't want more boilerplate.

I think your premise is wrong. When necessary (which it usually won't
be) the caller can tell the generator's state from the last thing it
yielded. Coroutines can easily define a protocol based on this if
needed. Anyway, single-yield generators are by far the majority.

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