On May 7, 2005, at 1:45 AM, Michele Simionato wrote: > On 5/6/05, Steven Bethard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> FWIW, I'm +1 on this. Enhanced Iterators >> * updates the iterator protocol to use .__next__() instead >> of .next() >> * introduces a new builtin next() >> * allows continue-statements to pass values to iterators >> * allows generators to receive values with a yield-expression >> The first two are, I believe, how the iterator protocol probably >> should have been in the first place. The second two provide a simple >> way of passing values to generators, something I got the impression >> that the co-routiney people would like a lot. >> > > Thank you for splitting the PEP. Conceptually, the "coroutine" part > has nothing to do with blocks and it stands on its own, it is right > to discuss it separately from the block syntax. > > Personally, I do not see an urgent need for the block syntax (most of > the use case can be managed with decorators) nor for the "couroutine" > syntax (you can already use Armin Rigo's greenlets for that).
While Armin's greenlets are really cool they're also really dangerous when you're integrating with C code, especially event loops and such. Language support would be MUCH better. -bob _______________________________________________ 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
