On Saturday, February 20, 2016 at 10:55:02 AM UTC+5:30, Rustom Mody wrote: > On Saturday, February 20, 2016 at 8:07:03 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Feb 2016 09:08 am, Mark Lawrence wrote: > > > > > Seeing there is a lot of interest in asyncio recently I figured people > > > might be interested in this > > > http://www.snarky.ca/how-the-heck-does-async-await-work-in-python-3-5 > > > > > > Thanks for the link, but I'm now no wiser than I was before :-( > > > > Can somebody explain Brett's explanation? > > Does "C++" light a bulb? <wink> > > Less snarkily looks like a series of bolt-ons after bolt-ons > > IMHO Guido's (otherwise) uncannily sound intuitions have been wrong right from > 2001 when he overloaded def for generators. > And after that its been slippery-slope down: reusing generator-yield > (statement) > for coroutine-yield (expression) > Most recently choosing these async-await keywords instead of the more > symmetric > suggestions of Greg Ewing
Forgot the probably most important: Not merging stackless into CPython -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list