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From: Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: generator/coroutine terminology
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 03:55:22 +0000
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On 17/03/2015 03:33, Rustom Mody wrote:
> On Tuesday, March 17, 2015 at 8:55:27 AM UTC+5:30, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>> On 17/03/2015 03:18, Rustom Mody wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, March 17, 2015 at 8:37:25 AM UTC+5:30, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Ok Let me throw out a suggestion:
>>>>>     - potato is a generator
>>>>>     - tomato is a cursor.
>>>>> Acceptable?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> No.  In Python potato is a generator function, tomato is a generator.
>>>> Why complicate something that is so simple?  I couldn't care less what
>>>> they are called in any other language.
>>>
>>> Ok so lets see...
>>> https://docs.python.org/3.4/tutorial/classes.html#generators
>>> https://docs.python.org/3.4/glossary.html#term-generator
>>>
>>> Are these consistent with (your notion of) python?
>>> Maybe they are "any other language"?
>>>
>>
>> I'll already suggested you write the patches and put them on the bug
>> tracker.  If you can't be bothered please have the courtesy to stop
>> bleating about it.
>
> Here are two of your posts (within a couple of hours)
>
> 1.
>> So the docs are confused and inconsistent but in an open source
>> community it's not *MY* responsibility to deal with it, somebody else can.
>> Making mountains out of mole hills is all I see in this entire thread.
>
> 2.
>> No.  In Python potato is a generator function, tomato is a generator.
>> Why complicate something that is so simple?  I couldn't care less what
>> they are called in any other language.
>
> I understand the first as saying: "Since something is wrong correct it; Dont bleat!"

The first is saying that *YOU* are complaining that the docs are 
inconsistent but *YOU* won't do anything about it.

>
> The second is saying "Nothing is wrong!"
>

The second is saying that those are *MY* definitions that *I'M* 
perfectly happy with.

> Please decide which side you belong
>

The side which hopes you give up this now very tedious thread.  Mario's 
response a few minutes back summed things up perfectly.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence