[Python-Dev] Missing operator.call

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Fri Feb 6 10:15:33 CET 2009


Greg Ewing writes:

 > The fact that yielding is going on is not of
 > interest in that situation -- it's just an
 > implementation detail. What you really want to
 > express is calling another function, but without
 > losing your status of coroutine-ness.

But doesn't "yield" in the sense of "yield the right of way" mean
exactly that?  Or am I not understanding what you mean by retain
status as a coreoutine?

I don't know if this is an argument for or against using "yield" in
this context.



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