[Python-Dev] PEP 289 - Generator Expressions (original) (raw)

[Python-Dev] PEP 289 - Generator Expressions - Let's Move Forward

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Fri Apr 30 14:01:32 EDT 2004

On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 13:59, Andrew Koenig wrote:

> > This looks (a) cool and (b) a complete hack that nobody should be > allowed to > > do without messing with sys.getframe(). > > It reminds me a little bit of the dynamic binding in Emacs lisp. As > incredibly useful as that is sometimes, it's a disgusting hack. :)

And, if I understand correctly, something from which the Lisp community is moving away--preferring, instead, the notion of "lexical scoping" such as in Scheme.

That's my understanding too. Back when I followed such things, there was a lot of discussion in the XEmacs lists about implementing lexical scoping and getting rid of this ugly hack (eventually -- no doubt there's tons of old elisp that would break as a result).

tim-would-have-fixed-python-mode-ly y'rs, -Barry

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