from __future__ import generators

[Joal Heagney]

Guido van Rossum wrote:

> It's still open for debate -- the newsgroup doesn't seem to be
> unanimous.
> 
> But note that future statements were intended in the first place to
> avoid *silent* breakage -- where existing code suddenly means
> something different.  This was the case (in some rare situations) with
> nested scopes and is clearly the case with division.
> 
> Use of 'yield' as an identifier is not a silent breakage -- there has
> to be at least one defining occurrence of yield when used as a
> variable, function, module or class name, and that will always be a
> syntax error.  This is why I proposed that, *if* there is enough
> popular support, the future generators statement might be
> unnecessary.  But it doesn't look likely.

Would it be possible to include something in the compile options? So
that if a person chooses to do so, they can automatically include all
__future__ directives into the executable?
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