On 2009-09-25, Simon Forman <sajmik...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Grant Edwards <inva...@invalid.invalid> 
> wrote:

>> You can't call a function that yields control back to the other
>> coroutine(s). ?By jumping through some hoops you can get the
>> same effect, but it's not very intuitive and it sort of "feels
>> wrong" that the main routine has to know ahead of time when
>> calling a function whether that function might need to yield or
>> not.
>
> You mean a "trampoline" function?  I.e. you have to call into your
> coroutines in a special main function that expects as part of the
> yielded value(s) the next coroutine to pass control to, and your
> coroutines all need to yield the next coroutine?

Exactly.  Compared to "real" coroutines where a yield statement
can occur anywhere, the trampoline business seems pretty
convoluted.

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