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

[Paul Sokolovsky]

Hello,

On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 18:53:00 +1200
Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at 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. 


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 Paul                          mailto:pmiscml at gmail.com