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This recipe enables the use of the yield statement within a method by decorating that method with a wrapper for a generator object.

Say what you will about Python, it does provide us with clever tricks such as this one.

By Ehud Lamm at 2005-03-23 14:11 | Python | other blogs | 15301 reads

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I would have thought..

functional folks would be all over generators as evil imperative things. After all, with lazy lists and tail call optimization one can generate results from finite state machines just fine. and copy them at any point. I don't think a Python generator be copied?

By James McCartney at Wed, 2005-03-23 18:11 | login or register to post comments

and the Schemers should be yawning.

functional folks would be all over generators as evil imperative things.

It's not in Haskell, what do I care?

Anyways, there are much more imperative things in languages typically accepted as "functional". They even let you do this.

By Derek Elkins at Thu, 2005-03-24 01:24 | login or register to post comments

Yeah what he said...

If it makes pythonistas happy, good for them.

After ten years of daily use, I think I've grown out of Python. It doesn't do anything interesting to me nowadays. Haskell has a lot more above and beyond what Python offers. Maybe that's just how my brain works. At this point my daily paying Python code looks like Haskell.

Witness a snippet from today that would be simpler and more efficient with Haskell.
(portal.portal_languages.getLanguageCookie() or ([l for l in portal.portal_languages.getRequestLanguages() if l in portal.portal_languages.getSupportedLanguages()] or ['en'])[0])
(For the curious, it does language fallback for LinguaPlone)


--Shae Erisson - ScannedInAvian.com

By shapr at Thu, 2005-03-24 01:48 | login or register to post comments

I'm tired...

...so pardon the bugs:

portal.portal_languages.getLanguageCookie() or (portal.portal_languages.getRequestLanguages() and portal.portal_languages.getSupportedLanguages() + 'en')[0]

By Michael Walter at Fri, 2005-03-25 06:14 | login or register to post comments