Closures in leu of pointers?

[Terry Reedy]

On 6/30/2013 1:46 AM, Ian Kelly wrote:

> On a related note, I think that generator functions should in some way
> be explicitly marked as such in the declaration, rather than needing
> to scan the entire function body for a yield statement to determine
> whether it's a generator or not.

I agree that one should not have to scan. The doc string, which should 
be present should start 'Return a generator that yields ...' or even 
'Generate ...'. Of course, then non-generator functions should not start 
the same way. The first option should be non-ambiguous.

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Terry Jan Reedy