generator/coroutine terminology
Rustom Mody
rustompmody at gmail.com
Thu Mar 12 09:35:26 EDT 2015
This is more a question about standard terminology/conventions than about semantics - of course assuming I understand :-)
Say I have a simple yielding function:
def foo(x):
yield x+1
yield x+2
And I have
g = foo(2)
If I look at type, g's type is 'generator' whereas foo is just plain-ol 'function.'
Whereas in informal usage we say foo is a generator.
So the question:
What should we call foo and what should we call g?
Same applies when foo is a 'coroutine' ie
something having yield used in an rhs and used with '.send' from outside:
What to call foo and what to call foo(x)?
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