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Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 14:02:17 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Generators
From: alex.aulbach@gmail.com (Alex Aulbach)

2012/8/13 Anthony Ferrara <ircmaxell@gmail.com>:
> It's absolutely something that takes getting used to. But it's also quite
> intuitive once you think about it. You're not "returning" back to the
> parent scope (exiting your scope), you're "yielding" a value to the parent
> scope, expecting to continue on later (think of it as a stop light where
> you let the other code run for a while until you go to the next one).

I think for people, which are - like me - more used with databases,
the cursor-concept is a good comparison.

Perhaps this could help a little bit to explain it...

-- 
Alex Aulbach