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Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 10:35:55 +0100
To: Derick Rethans <derick@php.net>,Gustavo Lopes <glopes@nebm.ist.utl.pt>
CC: Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com>,Jared Williams <jared.williams1@ntlworld.com>,PHP internals <internals@lists.php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Generators
From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrew Faulds)



Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote:
>Nothing shows that they are. In any example I saw, I don't even see any
>
>OO syntax/functionality. For me, "yield" is a core syntax *keyword*,
>and 
>hence: no exceptions.
>

I was unware PHP was a purist, non-OOP language. What is "OO syntax" anyway? Why can the core not use high-level language constructs too?

Yield is core syntax, but it produces a function returning a generator, which is an object, and since Iterators use Exceptions, it would be stupid for Generators, which *are* a class of Iterator, not to. 
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