Maybe it would help to refer to PEP 342, which first formally introduced the concept of coroutines (as a specific use case of generators) in Python. Personally I don't care too much which term the PEP uses, as logn as it defines its terms. The motivation is already clear to me; it's the details that I care about before approving this PEP.
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 1:14 PM, Skip Montanaro > <skip.montan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Yury Selivanov <yselivanov...@gmail.com > > > > wrote: > >> > >> Anyways, I'd be OK to start using a new term, if "coroutine" is > >> confusing. > > > > > > According to Wikipedia, term "coroutine" was first coined in 1958, so > > several generations of computer science graduates will be familiar with > the > > textbook definition. If your use of "coroutine" matches the textbook > > definition of the term, I think you should continue to use it instead of > > inventing new names which will just confuse people new to Python. > > IIUC the problem is that Python has or will have a number of different > things that count as coroutines by that classic CS definition, > including generators, "async def" functions, and in general any object > that implements the same set of methods as one or both of these > objects, or possibly inherits from a certain abstract base class. It > would be useful to have some terms to refer specifically to async def > functions and the await protocol as opposed to generators and the > iterator protocol, and "coroutine" does not make this distinction. > > -n > > -- > Nathaniel J. Smith -- http://vorpus.org > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/guido%40python.org > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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