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Aahz Maruch aahz at panix.com
Fri Apr 20 10:40:05 EDT 2001


In article <slrn9dv5st.68t.neelk at alum.mit.edu>,
Neelakantan Krishnaswami <neelk at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
>My personal suspicion (and this is just a guess) is that if
>syntactically lightweight generators and coroutines were added to
>Python, then the pressure for new features would fade.

Generators (called "iterators") are going to be 2.2.  They'll be more
powerful that Icon's generators; it's not clear whether they'll be a
full-fledged substitute for coroutines.
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