On Friday, March 13, 2015 at 5:36:35 PM UTC+8, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com>: > > > Nice demo of the same confusing terminology we are talking about. > > Why don't you just stick with the terminology of the language > specification? I think your students are going to be more confused if > you try to come up with something better. > > > When I say "expect generators to close" I mean 'generator-instances' > > ie at runtime > > > > When you say "expect both to close with return" you are talking of > > program-texts ie the 'factory' > > > > [Or I am guilty of the same I am accusing python of] > > Your 'factory' is a: > > generator > A function which returns an iterator. > <URL: https://docs.python.org/3/glossary.html> > > Your 'generator-instance' is an: > > iterator > An object representing a stream of data. > <URL: https://docs.python.org/3/glossary.html> > > I don't think you should read much into what str(obj) returns. It's not > much more than a random printable some CPython coder has cooked up in > the heat of the moment. > > > Marko
Well, the functional that returns a function instance which can be used as an interator is also a function. Well, some might use terms in generics programming as described in the book by Gangs of 4. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
