[Python-Dev] PEP 492: What is the real goal?

[Paul Moore]

On 30 April 2015 at 06:39, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Aaargh, this is what we get for overloading the word
> "coroutine". The Wikipedia article is talking about a
> technique where coroutines yield control to other
> explicitly identified coroutines.

Yep, I understand that. It's just that that's what I understand by coroutines.

> Coroutines in asyncio don't work that way; instead
> they just suspend themselves, and the event loop
> takes care of deciding which one to run next.

Precisely. As I say, the terminology is probably not going to change
now - no big deal in practice.
Paul