[Python-Dev] Single- vs. Multi-pass iterability

[Neil Schemenauer]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> - There really isn't anything "broken" about the current situation;
>   it's just that "next" is the only method name mapped to a slot in
>   the type object that doesn't have leading and trailing double
>   underscores.

Are you saying the _only_ reason to rename it is for consistency with
the other type slot method names?  That's really weak, IMHO, and not
worth any kind of backwards incompatibility (which seems unavoidable).

  Neil