[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 279

[Raymond Hettinger]

> > 3.  gen exception passing  -->  deferred, needs case building
> 
> OK (or you could give up now while you're ahead :-).
> 
> > 4.  gen parameter passing   -->  deferred, needs alternatives explored
> 
> That one was already taken out of the PEP.  I think that #3 probably
> fits better in the new PEP you were gonna write for #4.  But to be
> honest, I don't encourage you to write it -- I expect I'm gonna reject
> both in the end.  But I can't stop you. :-)

That's cool.  Better to be fully thought out, documented, and rejected
than to be half-baked and in limbo for perpetuity.

Besides, you might even like the revised proposal.  I think I've found
a very clean, consistent, pythonic way to avoid the problem with 
the thrown away call to next().


rejection-is-a-form-of-progress-ly yours,


Raymond Hettinger