Why is Python popular, while Lisp and Scheme aren't?

holger krekel pyth at devel.trillke.net
Thu Nov 28 13:20:49 EST 2002


Erik Max Francis wrote:
> holger krekel wrote:
> 
> > How does the introduction of 'yield' break old code?
> 
> If you had used a variable named yield, it won't work anymore.

obvious, isn't it? 

But who would use yield as an identifier name, anyway?

:-)'ly yours, holger




More information about the Python-list mailing list