On Sun Mar 22 09:11:29 CET 2009 Greg Ewing wrote:
As for confusion, we ignore the return values of function
calls all the time, without worrying that someone might be
confused by the fact that their return value doesn't go
anywhere. And that's the right way to think of a yield-from
expression -- as a kind of function call, not a kind of yield.
If there's anything confusing, it's the presence of the
word 'yield'. Its only virtue is that it gives a clue that
the construct has something to do with generators, but
you'll have to RTM to find out exactly what. Nobody has
thus far suggested any better name, however.
The PEP doesn't seem to contain a list of unacceptable names and reasons
in the section where the problem with the name is mentioned. So I wonder
why the obvious 'delegate to' is not acceptable? (Because adding
a keyword would make it less likely to be accepted?)
--
R. David Murray http://www.bitdance.com
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