On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > But WHY would you not simply put the function that is handling the returned > data in place of the yield? > Why do you want to keep exiting and re-entering the 'do loop' when the data > can simply be forwarded direct to a function to handle it?
This question has come up a few times now, i.e. why one can't just use callbacks. So I added a section about this, explaining it with a few examples: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/generators#why_not_just_use_callback_functions Hope it helps, Nikita -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
