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

[Steve Dower]

Alertable I/O (<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa363772.aspx>) and overlapped I/O are two alternatives to IOCP on Windows.

>> I agree [continuation] shouldn't be used as a synonym for "task", though.
>> In any of its forms, a continuation isn't an entire task, it's
>> something that you call to cause the resumption of a task
>> from a particular suspension point.
>
> I guess that was just Steve showing off. :-)

Not intentionally - the team here that did async/await in C# talks a lot about "continuation-passing style", which is where I picked the term up from. I don't use it as a synonym for "task" - it's always meant the "bit that runs after we come back from the yield" (hmm... I think that definition needs some work...).