Why is Python popular, while Lisp and Scheme aren't?

Erik Max Francis max at alcyone.com
Wed Nov 27 21:20:43 EST 2002


holger krekel wrote:

> How does the introduction of 'yield' break old code?

If you had used a variable named yield, it won't work anymore.

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