And generators have been around in JavaScript for a while: Firefox 2 in October 2006: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/New_in_JavaScript/1.7
On Thursday, August 8, 2013 5:35:37 AM UTC+2, // ravi wrote: > > On Aug 7, 2013, at 11:22 PM, José F. Romaniello > <[email protected]<javascript:>> > wrote: > > "Generators first appeared in CLU (1975),[4] were a prominent feature in > the string manipulation language Icon (1977) and are now available > inPython,[5]C#,[6]Ruby and other languages. In CLU and C#, generators are > callediterators, and in Ruby, enumerators." > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generator_(computer_programming) > > > > 2013-1975/10=decades > > > > José, thank you for the response and clarifications. In the context of > this discussion (the familiarity of the mass of programmers with coding > correctly using ‘yield’) I would discount Icon, CLU (that’s a new one to > me!), which resets the start date to the 90s, even late 90s (depending on > the rise of Python/Ruby and the introduction of generators in these > languages). At any rate, I myself certainly have no hard data on what > percentage of developers are comfortable with this feature, and would be > happy to learn that that number is high counter to my intuition. > > Regards, > > —ravi > > > > > At this point even c# has yield since version 2, exactly 8 years ago and > I have seen used for coroutines/async > > > > > http://devlicio.us/blogs/rob_eisenberg/archive/2010/08/21/caliburn-micro-soup-to-nuts-part-5-iresult-and-coroutines.aspx > > > El 07/08/2013 23:38, "// ravi" <[email protected] <javascript:>> > escribió: > > On Aug 7, 2013, at 9:39 AM, José F. Romaniello > > <[email protected]<javascript:>> > wrote: > > > Move on this is a SOLVED PROBLEM, we have had this thing in many > programming languages for decades and any mediocre software developer know > what yield means at the middle of a function. > > > > > > > While I do not think accidental misuse is a compelling reason to not add > a language feature, I am curious about the above claim. There haven’t been > many languages that have been around for “decades” which is not to get > pedantic, but to raise the question: what similar behaviour (as > generators/yield) exists in C, C++, Perl, PHP, etc? (perhaps Lisp?). The > existence of many fine async modules and methodologies betrays the fact > that even async (which has been around for decades) is full of pitfalls for > all but the most cautious programmer. > > > > Regards, > > > > —ravi > > > > > > -- > > -- > > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "nodejs" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<javascript:> > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] <javascript:> > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > > > --- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > -- > > -- > > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "nodejs" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<javascript:> > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] <javascript:> > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > > > --- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
