On Feb 15, 2012, at 7:48 AM, Dean Landolt wrote:
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> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Brendan Eich <[email protected]> wrote:
> +1 on ... (spread) exhausting an iterator to expand the iterated values into
> positional parameters or initialisers.
>
> What about infinite generators? Punt on any iterators without a predefined
> length? Otherwise wouldn't there be some kind of exception akin to a stack
> overflow?
Or just an infinite loop.
Every time somebody invokes an abstracted operation there is the possibility
that it will never complete.
We don't worry about the possibility that a stack overflow or infinite loop
could occur in the code that provides the iterator so I don't see why we should
worry about that in the code the exhausts the iterator.
Allen
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