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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 00:24:43 -0600
Subject: Re: Closures in leu of pointers?
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On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 12:11 AM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
> 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.

I don't deny that properly written comments help, but consider that
Python already enforces proper indentation for the sake of
readability.  I don't think it would be a great harm if the syntax
enforced easily readable generator