Python as Guido Intended

Antoon Pardon apardon at forel.vub.ac.be
Fri Nov 25 03:37:27 EST 2005


Op 2005-11-24, Delaney, Timothy (Tim) schreef <tdelaney at avaya.com>:

> And this is the crux of it - the majority of such proposals come from
> people who apparently haven't actually used python that much, and are
> trying to impose things from other languages onto it. There's nothing
> wrong with bringing concepts across from other languages (look at the
> "generators" history), but you need to understand how it will fit with
> python before proposing it as a new feature.

Why?

To propose generators in Python (before they were present) would seem to
me a valuable suggestion even if the proposer didn't understand how it
will fit.

-- 
Antoon Pardon



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