On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 03:01:44AM -0500, Sam Tregar wrote:
| The generator PEP which contains a more complete discussion:
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| http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0255.html
|
| After reading that I'm only left wondering how this concept connects with
| continuations. Something tells me that if we implement continuations then
| coroutines and generators will fall out nearly for free. On the other
| hand, if we don't do continuations then I think this will be quite hard.
There is also a nice description of stackless (continuations):
http://www.mcmillan-inc.com/stackless.html
>From my perspective, generators allow for easy processing of
multiple input sources (or multiple parallel regular expression
matches in the same imput source) without threads. Since this
is a common use case for me, I'd love to see it in Parrot. As
for general continuations, I can't remember when I've last used
co-routines... college?
It seems that the Python people have figured a simple way to
implement generators. That said... I'd hate to have a generator
request promoted into a continuation request and then get dumped
beacuse it is too complicated. ;)
Best,
Clark
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