From: Greg McIntyre <greg@...>
Date: 2003-03-24T09:54:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby lecture slides (was Strong advantages over Python)

Jim Weirich <jweirich@one.net> wrote:
> Yes and no.  Although they are entirely different things, they both
> are used for do "iteration-like" stuff in their respective languages. 
> That and the fact they both use the keyword "yield" (although with
> complete different semantics!) leads people to confuse the two.

Okay, so what if, instead of saying "This functionality has been added
to Python recently as generators," I said that "This functionality has
been added to Python recently using generators"? I mean. If generators
are a more powerful and general construct, they should be able to do
what Ruby blocks can, plus more.

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