Hello,
On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 18:53:00 +1200
Greg Ewing <greg...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> 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.
But of course it's only a Wikipedia page, which doesn't mean it
has to provide complete and well-defined picture, and quality of some
(important) Wikipedia pages is indeed pretty poor and doesn't improve.
--
Best regards,
Paul mailto:pmis...@gmail.com
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