Re: [TCLCORE] Question on coroutines

miguel sofer wrote:
> The same tech makes possible a new command [yieldTo]: essentially > [tailcall] but yielding instead of returning - that is, saving the state > of the current coro, so that it can be reawakened later on. I am > planning to put this into ::tcl::unsupported.

That's the classic definition of yield in a coroutine. What we have/had 
before was really a "generator".

> I think that this command could find very interesting applications. The > big Q is: shall I try to TIP it as an amendment to TIP #328? I DO know > it is rather late ...

For unsupported? No need. For supported? It would be good to see what 
you propose in that case. Off-the-wall suggestion: maybe a "-target" 
option to normal [yield] would be better...?

Donal.

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