On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 13:22:28 -0400, "Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >"Mike Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >> The question under these circumstances is then: do you want bare >> genexp to mean something? Right now, it's a syntax error. But there's >> no reason you couldn't have: >> >> y = x for x in stuff >> >> assign a generator object to y. > >Since this was considered, there is a reason why we don't have this. As I >remenber, but vaguely, Guido's reasoning was both stylistic and technical, >but you'd have to check the archives for more. > Because it is too reminiscent of a lambda expression assignment? ;-) Regards, Bengt Richter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
