generator/coroutine terminology

Rustom Mody rustompmody at gmail.com
Mon Mar 16 23:18:03 EDT 2015


On Tuesday, March 17, 2015 at 8:37:25 AM UTC+5:30, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> >
> > Ok Let me throw out a suggestion:
> >   - potato is a generator
> >   - tomato is a cursor.
> > Acceptable?
> >
> 
> No.  In Python potato is a generator function, tomato is a generator. 
> Why complicate something that is so simple?  I couldn't care less what 
> they are called in any other language.

Ok so lets see...
https://docs.python.org/3.4/tutorial/classes.html#generators
https://docs.python.org/3.4/glossary.html#term-generator

Are these consistent with (your notion of) python?
Maybe they are "any other language"?



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