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Tue Jul 27 03:43:22 CEST 2010 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-July/102432.html

Georg Brandl writes:
 > Am 26.07.2010 10:59, schrieb Anders Sandvig:
 > > On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 3:31 AM, Gregory P. Smith <greg at krypto.org> wrote:
 > >> Yuck.  Anyone who feels they need a variable named the same a reserved word
 > >> simply feels wrong and needs reeducation.  [...]
 > > 
 > > While I agree with you in principle, I have been finding it
 > > frustrating trying to calculate yield in my financial applications
 > > lately... ;)
 > 
 > In the spirit of optimistic programming, why not assume a large one
 > and call it Yield? ;)

That's certainly more workable than the obvious near-synonym, "return".

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