[Python-ideas] yield from multiple iterables (was Re: The async API of the future: yield-from)

[Christian Tismer]

On 21.10.12 01:52, Greg Ewing wrote:
> Christian Tismer wrote:
> ...
>> The only difference is that I'm not aiming at coroutines in
>> the first place, but just having the concept of a *suspendable*
>> function.
>
> I'm not sure what the distinction is.

This comes maybe from my use of 'coroutine', 'tasklet', 'generator'
etc. which differs from the meaning where others are thinking of.
I'm mostly talking in the PyPy and Stackless community, which
creates confusion.
In that world, 'generator' for instance means a whole bunch of
functions that can play together and yield to the caller of _the_
generator. The same holds for coroutines in that world.

In python-world, things seem to be more often made of single functions.
Switching context to that:

'coroutine' implies to think about coroutines, the intended action.
'suspendable' instead is neutral without any a-priori intent to
switch or something. It just tells the ability that it can be suspended.
That sounds more like a property.

The 'suspendable' is meant as a building block for higher-level
things, which include for instance coroutines (in any flavor).

Technically the same, when we're talking about one single function
that implements it.

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