[Python-Dev] yield * (Re: Missing operator.call)

[Guido van Rossum]

Time to move to this to python-ideas, folks.

On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Calvin Spealman <ironfroggy at gmail.com> wrote:
> All of this debate is moot without the foundation of a common library
> on which we would be building these coroutines. Any proposal of a
> specific coroutine syntax is worthless without a time and community
> tested coroutine implementation, which would be subject to the same
> rigerous inclusion requirements as any other 3rd party library. Only
> then, some time in the future, would any argument about a specific
> syntax be worth real consideration.
>
> Let's not jump the shark.
>
> On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>> Willem Broekema wrote:
>>
>>> Function g violates the current limitation that generators can't
>>> return with a value. So can g only be used using "yield *" then, or
>>> would that limitation be removed?
>>
>> The limitation would be removed, in the interests
>> of making it easier to use generators as coroutines.
>>
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>> Greg
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