I've used them, and I think a Julia Task is a better comparison. So while the syntax is different you can accomplish the same thing.
On Thursday, October 13, 2016, Neal Becker <ndbeck...@gmail.com> wrote: > julia-0.5 supports generator expressions, ala python, which is very nice. > > Any thoughts on supporting the more general python generator functions, as > described e.g.: https://wiki.python.org/moin/Generators? I haven't used > them much myself (well, once), but they seem a really cool idea. > >