On Jul 8, 2011, at 3:59 PM, Brendan Eich wrote:
> But the stronger reason for "function*" as mandator
"mandatory" of course (need new keyboard).
> generator syntax introducer came when we considered "yield*" ("yield from" in
> Python's PEP380): the utility of a zero-iterations basis case for a
> sub-generator. As Dave noted, otherwise you'd have to write "function* () {if
> (false) yield;}" or some such.
"function () {if (false) yield;}" of course -- the hypothesis there assumes no
"*" after "function", in which case you must write a dead "yield" to make the
function be a generator in the first place.
/be
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