Time to rename Stackless?

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Feb 25 21:23:39 EST 2002


Christian Tismer <tismer at tismer.com>:

> It is still stackless in the sense that order of execution is not
> restricted by the C stack.

Even so, I still think it's a poor name, because it
focuses on an implementation detail rather than
telling you what it can do for you.

> We have now tasklets, proclets, and the stack slices are
> stacklets. :)

Hmmm... maybe it should be called Pythonlet...

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