Meta: PEP discussion (was Re: PEP 255: Simple Generators)

[Greg Ewing]

Tim Peters wrote:
> 
> [Paul Prescod]
> > Did icon switch from eager evaluation of the function to lazy
> > evaluation based on the occurrence of a keyword somewhere in the
> > function?
> 
> FYI, Icon didn't expose the implementation, so there was no way to tell.

In Icon, there isn't any implementation *to* expose. There
are no generator-iterators in Icon; the closest equivalent
is simply the activation record of a procedure.

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