[Python-ideas] An alternative to PEP 572's Statement-Local Name Bindings

[Greg Ewing]

Robert Vanden Eynde wrote:
> But I think that the implementation of print(y with y = x + 1) would
> be more close to next(y for y in [ x+1 ])

WHy on earth should it be? Expanding that gives you a generator
containing a loop that only executes once that is immediately run
to yield exactly one value. Why bother with all that overhead?

-- 
Greg