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

[Greg Ewing]

Guido van Rossum wrote:

> (Aside: please don't use 'continuation' for 'task'. The use of this
> term in Scheme has forever tainted the word for me.)

It has a broader meaning than the one in Scheme; essentially
it's a synonym for "callback".

I agree it 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.

-- 
Greg