[Python-Dev] PEP 380 - return value question and prototype implementation (was Thoughts fresh after EuroPython)

[Greg Ewing]

P.J. Eby wrote:

> I would like to reiterate (no pun intended) the suggestion of a special 
> syntactic  form for the return
>
> Allowing a return 
> value, but then having that value silently disappear, seems like it 
> would delay ... learning

If I remember correctly, all these arguments were made at the
time, even by Guido himself, and he eventually came around
to the view that treating generator returns specially wasn't
worth the trouble.

-- 
Greg