[Python-Dev] PEP 343 - Abstract Block Redux

[Guido van Rossum]

[Nick Coghlan]
> Maybe PEP 343 should drop any suggestion of using generators to define these
> things, and focus on the PEP 310 style templates.

But then the reason for separating VAR from EXPR becomes unclear.
Several people have mentioned that they thought this was "a good idea
on its own", but without giving additional use cases. Without the
ability to write the acquire/release template as a generator, the big
question is, "why not just PEP 310" ?

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