[Python-ideas] Alternative name for yield-from

[Guido van Rossum]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Greg Ewing
<greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> I've had another idea about what to call yield-from:
>
>  y = pass g(x)
>
> which means "run this generator, passing through
> any sent/yielded values etc." It's short, it's
> suggestive, it doesn't use any new keywords, and
> there's no danger of confusing it with 'yield'.
>
> Now, you're probably reaching for the -1 button
> at this point, thinking "WTF? That's completely
> different from the existing meaning of pass!"
>
> But there's a sense in which the existing 'pass'
> can be seen as a degenerate case. Consider the
> generator
>
>  def nada():
>    if False:
>      yield
>
> Since it never yields anything, doing
>
>  pass nada()
>
> is effectively a no-op. Thus, 'pass' with no
> generator at all is a no-op as well.
>
> There's still one remaining difference -- the
> presence of 'pass' with a value would make the
> containing function into a generator, whereas
> plain 'pass' wouldn't. We'd just have to live
> with that inconsistency.

-1000 because of that last one.

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