On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Andrew Fedoniouk <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Rick Waldron <[email protected]> wrote: >> Or do you mean to say that generator functions and yield should be removed? > > In principle, with functions-as-collections the yield and the whole > generators stuff > is not needed. If functions can be used on the right of 'in' or 'of' > in 'for' then > all 'yield' use cases that I saw so far can be implemented without the yield. > So why do we need redundant entities?
You don't understand what yield does. It freezes the execution of the function at that point, waiting until .next() is called to resume execution. This means you can do a number of very convenient things, like yielding in the middle of a loop, or yielding within a try/catch block. You can't do these with simple functions without significant refactoring. The convenience of yield is well-established by Python. ~TJ _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
