[Python-ideas] PEP 492 terminology - (native) coroutine objects

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri May 1 07:24:39 CEST 2015


Ron Adam wrote:

> A waiter?
> or awaiter?
> 
> As in a-wait-ing an awaiter.

The waiter would be the function executing the await
operator, not the thing it's operating on.

In a restaurant, waiters wait on customers. But calling
an awaitable object a "customer" doesn't seem right
at all.

-- 
Greg


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