Btw, wasn’t being dismissive of your effort - I only linked to the article (which is pretty old) because it covers many of the same ideas you were discussing - and whenever I get the chance to link to something involving Knuth I am going to take it :)
> On Nov 18, 2024, at 12:02 PM, Romain Doumenc <romain@trout.software> wrote: > > Hi Roger, > > Glad you found this interesting, and thank you for reading ! > > One can obviously always use methods on a structure instead of > coroutines (in the example I provided, the state could be stored in > the tokenizer), and the question is when storing the state on the Go > stack directly makes code more readable – and yes, a lot of what > “readable” means is colored by one’s own experience. > I think the largest benefit does not stem from the feedback from the > parser to the tokeniser (although I do find it very cute), but instead > from the ability of the parent routine to restart the parser when an > error is found. With coroutines, this can be expressed as a simple for > loop; but I have not seen something as neat with other methods – > either stack unwinding (hard to maintain invariants) or instead > pushing deep down in the parser the knowledge about how much tokens to > throw away. > > My goal in reaching code currently hidden in the library was to see > how much more we could do if we had full coroutines, and not making > any claim about finding a “best” or even a “better” approach. Looking > forward to seeing what you create with iterators! > > Best > -- > Romain > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CAMYUV_oa_DEWceZUFx6EqPjkJ1cqVA5GS6pQEeK-h%3DkrExAhiA%40mail.gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/8CCEFA4E-7FA5-4AB2-86A0-00BB3C792299%40ix.netcom.com.
