> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stas Malyshev [mailto:smalys...@sugarcrm.com]
> Sent: 20 August 2012 00:08
> To: Derick Rethans
> Cc: Nikita Popov; PHP internals
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Generators
>
> Hi!
>
> > I am against this. This is even more magic in PHP. Is it
> really that
> > difficult to have to mark the function with a different
> keyword, such
> > as
> > "generator":
>
> You have a point here, but "public static final generator
> function foo()" sounds a bit long-winded to me... Also, we'd
> have then to decide which function can be marked generator
> and which can't (e.g., interface probably can't, abstract
> probably can't, anonymous probably can, etc.) which adds more
> complexity.
That'd be return type hinting would it not?
Given that generator functions currently return an instance of class
Generator.
Also anonymous generators would be quite strange
$f = Generator function() { yield 'a'; };
Jared
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