---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Susan Cheng <[email protected]> Date: 2015-12-22 16:19 GMT+08:00 Subject: Re: [swift-evolution] Coroutine for Swift To: Andrew Bennett <[email protected]>
Hi, Andrew Bennett I have updated the proposal with some of your suggestions. Susan 2015-12-22 15:33 GMT+08:00 Andrew Bennett <[email protected]>: > Great proposal! I'm all for this, I think your proposed implementation is > pretty good too. > > It would be interesting to expand the proposal to consider more cases in > more detail: > * Concurrency > * SequenceType versus GeneratorType > * Should a language feature depend on the Standard Library > (GeneratorType)? Alternatives: > + func myFunction -> () -> T? > + func myFunction -> () -> (myFunction_State, myFunction_State -> T?) > * What happens if you write: guard ... else { yield ... } > * Use an enum for the state that encapsulates all possible variables in > each state > > If you're not familiar with it, there's another thread that discussed > similar here: > > https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20151207/001872.html > > In particular you may be interested in Chris Lattner's comment: > > I’m very interested in this, but it is clearly out of scope for Swift 3. > It should also be considered alongside whatever async/concurrency approach > we tackle (likely in swift 4). > > > Either way it's worth discussing and working towards :) > > On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 6:03 PM, Félix Cloutier <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> There's probably some additional work to do on the proposal document, but >> I would like to see coroutines in Swift too. The feature has been very >> successful in other languages like Python and C#, and unless I'm mistaken, >> work is being done to standardize it in C++. >> >> Generators are one use case, but resumable functions in general can also >> be used to make async code look prettier. >> >> Félix >> >> Le 22 déc. 2015 à 01:47:05, Susan Cheng via swift-evolution < >> [email protected]> a écrit : >> >> here is my proposal for swift lang >> >> >> https://github.com/SusanDoggie/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0018-coroutine-for-swift.md >> _______________________________________________ >> swift-evolution mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> swift-evolution mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution >> >> >
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