Iterators vs. Generators

Frank Tobin ftobin at neverending.org
Mon Jun 10 23:05:44 EDT 2002


On 10 Jun 2002, Aahz wrote:

> So when would one actually write an iterator instead of a generator?
> I've been trying to think of an example and failing.

Probably any time you want to have the thing 'do more' by being a full
object.  I personally haven't written any generators yet, but I do use
iterators a lot, just because I use OOP a lot.

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Frank Tobin			http://www.neverending.org/~ftobin/




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