Greg Ewing wrote: > Shane Hathaway wrote: > >>For each block statement, it is necessary to create a *new* iterator, >>since iterators that have stopped are required to stay stopped. So at a >>minimum, used-defined statements will need to call something, and thus >>will have parentheses. > > > Not necessarily! > > class Frobbing: > > def __neg__(self): > begin_frobbing() > try: > yield > finally: > end_frobbing() > > frobbing = Frobbing() > > ... > > -frobbing: > do_something()
Larry Wall would hire you in a heartbeat. ;-) Maybe there's really no way to prevent people from writing cute but obscure block statements. A keyword like "block" or "suite" would give the reader something firm to hold on to. Shane _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
