On Tue, 13 Jun 2023 at 09:33, Greg Ewing <gcew...@snap.net.nz> wrote: > > On 13/06/23 9:29 am, Dom Grigonis wrote: > > Also, could anyone point me in the direction, where it is explained why new > > await/async syntax was introduced instead of making use of already existing > > yield coroutine functionality? > > To my mind, the fact that coroutines use the same underlying > mechanism as generators is an implementation detail. It's > only like that for historical reasons, and it could change in > the future. >
I think they currently use what's basically a copy of the generator implementation. It makes sense to make resumable functions that way. (Fun fact: Pike looked at what Python was doing, and came up with a concept of "continue functions" which work broadly the same way that generators do, but with a declaration - kinda on par with writing "continue def gen():" in Python. Yes, it reuses the "continue" keyword.) ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/KN4SBHIQ4UHIJHANKE6FPX53YHVRUAOA/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
