generators in Java?

Diez B. Roggisch deets at nospam.web.de
Sat Dec 31 04:44:49 EST 2005


Tom Sheffler schrieb:
> 
> This may have been discussed before, so I apologize.
> 
> Does Java have generators?  I am aware of the "Iterator" interface,
> but it seems much more restrictive.  Python generators are useful
> for many more things than simply list enumeration, but the Java
> Iterator seems limited.

No, it hasn't. One thing people do is to create threads that communicate 
via a queue and block while that queue has an item in it. But  of course 
that comes at additional overhead of thread context switching.


Regards,

Diez



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