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On 07/19/2015 02:21 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Gregory Ewing
> <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

>> Personally I'd be fine with your initial syntax, but
>> something else might be needed to get it past Guido.
>> He didn't like my 'cocall f()' construct in PEP 3152,
>> which is syntactically isomorphic to 'transfer f()'.
> 
> Maybe it should get written up and rejected, then, to be something to
> point to any time anyone advocates TCO.

Those who remember the history of pep 308 will not find
that a strong deterrent.