Re: Use generators instead of lists for resultsets?

On Saturday 25 June 2005 05:28, Jacob Smullyan wrote:

> You are certainly right to question adding a new method and to
> consider options for getting the behavior desired out of the api
> already in existence, but in the end I'm not convinced by how it would
> work, and think a new method would be cleaner.  Both options, the
> getSome() return type parameter and the class attribute that
> determines the default return type, have some problems which seem
> pretty decisive for me.

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> The return type would be consistent, however.
>
> That's my point of view, at any rate.  I am susceptible to persuasion,
> given enough time, so don't hesitate to argue if you feel like it!

No problem, YOU have convinced me; in effects I was dubious because changing 
the return type with a paramether is not the maximum of the elegance, even 
with a dynamic language as Python.

+1 for the iterSome() solution, then  :)

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