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Generators (Score:1)

by spacebat (7584)

What I'd like to see is something like Python's generators. While one could argue we've got something similar by using closures, its not the same thing. Generators can return values with a yield statement, resume execution on the next line when they are called again, which can make the control flow in the generator much clearer.

For me the real benefit of generators is that they are very fast, in the interpreter instead of 100+ lines of C to enter a function, once a generator is called initially its just a h

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- These are called coroutines (Score:1)
  
  by mugwumpjism (1871) on 2008.01.17 22:13 (#60336) Homepage Journal
  
  Available for Perl 5 now in the module Coro
  
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