[Numpy-discussion] Python needs goto

[Ryan May]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 3:02 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> The coroutines in 3.5 are just syntactic sugar around features that were
> added in *2*.5 (yield expressions and yield from), so no need to wait :-).
> They fall far short of arbitrary continuations, though.
>

Correction: Python 3.4 gained "yield from". Prior to that, you had a lot of
work to properly delegate from one generator to another.

But yes, async and await are just syntactic sugar (consistent with other
languages) for python 3.4's coroutine functionality.

Ryan
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