Guido van Rossum wrote:
Why is "call expr" a more enticing syntax than "yield *expr" ?
I was thinking it would read better when you're using generators as lightweight threads, and you want the one-level-deep nature of generators to be hidden as much as possible. The fact that yielding is going on is not of interest in that situation -- it's just an implementation detail. What you really want to express is calling another function, but without losing your status of coroutine-ness. Another way of thinking about it is that it allows you to abstract out a chunk of code from a generator that contains a 'yield' and put it into another function, and then call it in a way that resembles an ordinary function call as closely as possible. Maybe 'call' isn't the best word for that, but I haven't thought of anything better so far. -- Greg _______________________________________________ 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
