Skip Montanaro wrote:
According to Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coroutine>, term "coroutine" was first coined in 1958, so several generations of computer science graduates will be familiar with the textbook definition. If your use of "coroutine" matches the textbook definition of the term, I think you should continue to use it instead of inventing new names which will just confuse people new to Python.
I don't think anything in asyncio or PEP 492 fits that definition directly. Generators and async def functions seem to be what that page calls a "generator" or "semicoroutine": they differ in that coroutines can control where execution continues after they yield, while generators cannot, instead transferring control back to the generator's caller. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
