Python 1.6 The balanced language

Aahz Maruch aahz at netcom.com
Thu Aug 31 11:56:58 EDT 2000


In article <8oknrp$aho$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>,  <lobozc at my-deja.com> wrote:
>
>3) My particular favourite is Icon (see www.cs.arizona.edu/icon).
>Particular aspects of some interest to Python would be goal-directed
>evaluation [saves helluva lot of lines of code...] and, less
>importantly, generators and coexpressions. 

Generators are pretty likely to make it into Python through the
Stackless implementation.  In addition, they're reasonably likely to
make it in even without Stackless, assuming someone comes up with a good
implementation -- they'd be incredly useful for generic lazy "for"
loops.
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