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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Apr 30 08:35:50 CEST 2015


Yury Selivanov wrote:
> Everybody is pulling me in a different direction :)
> Guido proposed to call them "native coroutines".  Some people
> think that "async functions" is a better name.  Greg loves
> his "cofunction" term.

Not the term, the *idea*. But PEP 492 is not based on
that idea, so I don't advocate calling anything in
PEP 492 a cofunction. My vote goes to "async function".

-- 
Greg


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