On 4/20/06, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The difficulty with improving on the current generator
> model is that the only way to do any better is to use
> full coroutines. That means either using threads (which
> you can do now if you want), or turning the whole
> implementation inside-out in the manner of the original
> Stackless, which would break all existing C extensions
> and force writers of future extensions to use a very
> convoluted API.

Perhaps more importantly, it would make it impossible (or at least
hugely impractical or inefficient) to implement the feature in Jython
or IronPython.

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--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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