PEP 255: Simple Generators

[Greg Ewing]

Bob Alexander wrote:
> 
> 2. As an Icon programmer, it never occurred to me that there was a need for a 
> syntactic distinction.

As I pointed out in an earlier message on
python-iterators at lists.sourceforge.net,
the Icon situation doesn't carry over to PEP255, because the
semantics are different. There's no semantic difference
between them in Icon, but there is in PEP255.

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