iterators (was: python-dev summary)

[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

21 Feb 2001 09:32:35 -0800, Don Dwiggins <dwig at advancedmp.net> pisze:

> Actually, you can already do it Prolog-style:
>   (_, _, _, ThingIWant, OtherthingIWant, _) = funcreturning6_tuple()

Except that the object bound to _ will be retained until the function
returns or _ is rebound.

Unfortunately the interpreter is probably not allowed to optimize
it out by realizing that this variable is never referenced, because
somebody might want to rely on the fact that the destructor is not
called too early. I wish it was allowed to optimize it out. Or is
it already? Relying on the moment of calling a destructor is evil.

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