PEP 308: A PEP Writer's Experience - CON

[Dave Brueck]

On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, Aahz wrote:

> It introduces more parsing overhead in human readability than any change
> since list comprehensions, and it introduces more semantic/syntactic
> overhead in human readability than generators.  (I'm still deeply unhappy
> about losing the fight to add a keyword to the front of generators.)

How can you possibly substantiate that statement? There's no metric for
"parsing overhead in human readability". I can just as easily say it adds
very little overhead because it doesn't overload the meaning of the
keywords used.

-Dave