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

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

Andrew Koenig ark-mlist at att.net
Tue May 4 10:31:38 EDT 2004


There may be a general rule that functions that make use of free variables are best programmed in a functional style, where the function doesn't depend on side-effects to those variables.

The troublesome cases tend to be ones where the function depends on the lack of side effects to free variables.



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