On 22/08/18 07:11, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
"Wait wait wait!" should ideally never happen. In programming, surprises
are not a good thing, and they're even less good when they are
retroactive.
"Ha, fooled you! You thought you were dealing with an eagerly evaluated
expression, but it was a deferred function body declaration instead!
Mwahahahaha!!!"
This, by the way, is why think using the same syntax for function
definition and generator definition was a mistake. It's only when I
reach a "yield" statement that I realise my expectations for this code
are wrong.
(That was a decision made a long time ago, and I'm not fool enough to
think that there's any benefit in trying to change it now. I can still
be a grumpy old man over it, though.)
--
Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd
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