On 8/3/07, Facundo Batista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2007/8/3, Andrew Bennetts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I don't really think there's much reason to make "iter()" work. As you > say, > > What bad thing could happen if we make iter() work? If nothing, we > should ask ourselves: which is the more intuitive behaviour to expect > of iter()? To raise an exception or to return an empty iterator? > > I'm +0 for the latter. >
-1. I'm a heavy user of iterators on finite and infinite streams and, for me, iter() is an error that I do not want to paper over. The alternate logic implies, e.g., len() should return 0. -Kevin
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