[Python-Dev] Missing operator.call

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Fri Feb 6 13:03:16 CET 2009


Greg Ewing <greg.ewing <at> canterbury.ac.nz> writes:
> 
> I've no problem with using 'yield' when actually
> giving up control. But the code making the call doesn't
> think of itself as yielding. The called code may
> want to yield, but the caller doesn't care about
> that. It just wants to make the callee do its thing,
> whatever it is.

Sorry for saying that, but the more I read your explanations, the less I
understand them. In any case, using such a generic word as "call" for
generator-specific semantics looks highly confusing to me.




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