[Python-ideas] Yet another alternative name for yield-from

[Guido van Rossum]

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Jacob Holm <jh at improva.dk> wrote:
> Bruce Frederiksen wrote:
>>
>> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>>
>>> but how about 'return from'?
>>
>> or 'return finally'?(??) ...
>>
> Or what about "yield return"? That clearly marks the construct as belonging
> in a generator. It also mixes well with the idea of a "yield raise" that I
> mentioned in another mail (not a suggestion for this PEP).

Not totally weird. After all Dave Beazley's trampoline uses "yield
g()" to call a sub-generator and "yield x" to return a value x from a
sub-generator to the calling generator via the trampoline's stack...

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