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

Tim Peters tim_one at email.msn.com
Wed Nov 27 18:17:19 EST 2002


[holger krekel]
> How does the introduction of 'yield' break old code?

It's a new keyword.  So, e.g., if you have a variable named "yield", you'll
have to rename it, or forget moving to 2.3; that's the only kind of breakage
introduced via yield.  The way people whine about stuff like this, you'd
think it was real work <wink>.





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