At 01:54 PM 7/3/02 -0600, Thom Boyer wrote: >I'm personally MUCH more interested in >Python's generators ><http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0255.html>. > >A generator is like an iterator in that it can produce a series of values. >But unlike >iterators, when you ask a generator for the next value, it picks up >execution exactly where >it left off when it returned the last value -- including all it's stack.
Isn't that a coroutine? I thought they were already slated for P6. *Rummage* Yes: http://www.yetanother.org/damian/diary_April_2001.html Or if you like: http://www.yetanother.org/damian/Perl5+i/coroutines.html -- Peter Scott Pacific Systems Design Technologies
