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To: Andrew Faulds <ajf@ajf.me>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Generators in PHP
From: g.b.yahav@gmail.com (Yahav Gindi Bar)

On 24 =D7=91=D7=99=D7=95=D7=9C 2012, at 20:35, Andrew Faulds wrote:

> On 24/07/12 18:34, Alex Aulbach wrote:
>> 2012/7/23 Sara Golemon <pollita@php.net>:
>>> Curious if you could expand on that.  Generators are iterators, so =
not sure
>>> what you're asking for.
>> It's the point which is unlogical for me. Maybe it's a question. If
>> the generator is an object with the implementation of an iterator, =
why
>> do we need to have it as _function_?
>>=20
> Much easier to make an iterator with a function than as a class.
>=20
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I agree, implementing a class only for iterator may be pain sometimes, =
and functions is much better - especially when 5.3 got the anonymous =
functions, so we can even use the generators for iterator functions in =
class methods which can be great.=