[Python-Dev] yield without future statement?

[Greg Ewing]

Guido:

> The general opinion
> seems to be that the future statement is redundant, since previous
> uses of yield will generally result in a syntax error

I thought the future statement was also to give users a
release or two of warning before a semantics-changing
feature becomes mandatory. Maybe I was wrong about the 
intention?

I don't have particularly strong feelings either way in
this case, but people more sensitive to code breakage
might.

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