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Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2015 21:39:40 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Generator Delegation
From: damz@damz.org (Damien Tournoud)

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On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 9:35 PM, Daniel Lowrey <rdlowrey@php.net> wrote:

> This is actually a *vastly* inferior solution to language-level support
> for generator returns. greenlet/gevent does it this way because these
> libraries were created before Python supported generator delegation (and
> continue supporting Python 2.5). When you have generator returns you don't
> need any of that additional cruft. Instead, a language supporting generator
> returns can simply yield promises (or whatever concurrency primitive you
> prefer). Period.
>

Hi Daniel,

I actually disagree here. Using generators as coroutine is a hack, and is
vastly inferior to having actual coroutine support in the language, but
obviously we do what we can with the language we have.

(Yes, I am in the camp that *really* dislike explicit yielding.)

I do understand where this is coming from, so changing my vote to yes on
the other RFC.

Damien

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