PEP 255: Simple Generators, Revised Posting

[Skip Montanaro]

    Rainer> "Bernhard Herzog" <bh at intevation.de> wrote in message
    Rainer> news:6qk8203myt.fsf at abnoba.intevation.de...
    >> > def emptyg():
    >> >     return
    >> >     yield None  # never reached
    >> 
    >> Only until the compiler becomes smart enough to remove that unreachable
    >> yield statement. :)

    Rainer> By that time, the compiler will hopefully be smart enough to
    Rainer> perform static analysis *before* removing dead code.

My peephole optimizer would have removed it...

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