On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 4:39 PM, Damien Tournoud <d...@damz.org> wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 9:35 PM, Daniel Lowrey <rdlow...@php.net> wrote: >> >> This is actually a *vastly* inferior solution to language-level support for generator returns. greenlet/gevent does it this way because these libraries were created before Python supported generator delegation (and continue supporting Python 2.5). When you have generator returns you don't need any of that additional cruft. Instead, a language supporting generator returns can simply yield promises (or whatever concurrency primitive you prefer). Period. > > > Hi Daniel, > > I actually disagree here. Using generators as coroutine is a hack, and is vastly inferior to having actual coroutine support in the language, but obviously we do what we can with the language we have. > > (Yes, I am in the camp that *really* dislike explicit yielding.) > > I do understand where this is coming from, so changing my vote to yes on the other RFC. > > Damien >
I can appreciate your viewpoint :) We do what we can with the tools we have at our disposal. If you don't want to see it happen then I can live with that. It is, my job, as the RFC author to persuade people. Thanks for your honest input!
