Maybe it would help to refer to PEP 342, which first formally introduced
the concept of coroutines (as a specific use case of generators) in Python.
Personally I don't care too much which term the PEP uses, as logn as it
defines its terms. The motivation is already clear to me; it's the details
that I care about before approving this PEP.
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 1:14 PM, Skip Montanaro> <skip...@gmail.com> wrote:> >> > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Yury Selivanov <ysel...@gmail.com> >> > wrote:> >>> >> Anyways, I'd be OK to start using a new term, if "coroutine" is> >> confusing.> >> >> > According to Wikipedia, 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.>> IIUC the problem is that Python has or will have a number of different> things that count as coroutines by that classic CS definition,> including generators, "async def" functions, and in general any object> that implements the same set of methods as one or both of these> objects, or possibly inherits from a certain abstract base class. It> would be useful to have some terms to refer specifically to async def> functions and the await protocol as opposed to generators and the> iterator protocol, and "coroutine" does not make this distinction.>> -n>> --> Nathaniel J. Smith -- http://vorpus.org> _______________________________________________> Python-Dev mailing list> Pyth...@python.org> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev> Unsubscribe:> https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/guido%40python.org>
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