On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, Clark C . Evans wrote:
Hello. I was wondering if Parrot is going to support
Generators. A generator is a function that returns
multiple times, and I believe, was first made available
in the language ICON. Now, ICON may have taken it a
bit too far (everything is a
On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 03:01:44AM -0500, Sam Tregar wrote:
| The generator PEP which contains a more complete discussion:
|
|http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0255.html
|
| After reading that I'm only left wondering how this concept connects with
| continuations. Something tells me
As
for general continuations, I can't remember when I've last used
co-routines... college?
It seems that the Python people have figured a simple way to
implement generators. That said... I'd hate to have a generator
request promoted into a continuation request and then get dumped
At 03:47 AM 12/31/2001 -0500, Clark C . Evans wrote:
It seems that the Python people have figured a simple way to
implement generators.
If you only allow yeilding from the outermost level of scope in a routine,
you can do evil things with Duff's Device. Which is what Python does. (But
it's
At 03:01 AM 12/31/2001 -0500, Sam Tregar wrote:
After reading that I'm only left wondering how this concept connects with
continuations. Something tells me that if we implement continuations then
coroutines and generators will fall out nearly for free. On the other
hand, if we don't do
If you only allow yeilding from the outermost level of scope in a routine,
you can do evil things with Duff's Device. Which is what Python does. (But
it's sufficient for most purposes)
Dan
Duff's device being evil enough in and out of itself I'm not sure I see what
this
has to do with
At 04:08 PM 12/31/2001 +0100, Benoit Cerrina wrote:
If you only allow yeilding from the outermost level of scope in a routine,
you can do evil things with Duff's Device. Which is what Python does. (But
it's sufficient for most purposes)
Dan
Duff's device being evil enough in and out
Hello. I was wondering if Parrot is going to support
Generators. A generator is a function that returns
multiple times, and I believe, was first made available
in the language ICON. Now, ICON may have taken it a
bit too far (everything is a generator), however,
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