Generators versus Coroutines

Nick Patavalis npat at efault.net
Sun Aug 15 06:53:10 EDT 2004


On 2004-08-14, Paul Rubin <> wrote:
>
> You can't yield across multiple levels of function calls.  That's why
> they're called "simple generators" instead of just "generators".
>

For me it would be *tremendously* usefull if one could yield across
multiple levels of function calls. If this was supported, then most
uses of O/S treads could be replaced by generators.

Does anyone know if such a feature is planned?

/npat



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