[ccan] [PATCH] RFC: generator: Generators for C

[David Gibson]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 08:21:10PM +0930, Paul 'Rusty' Russell wrote:
> David Gibson <david at gibson.dropbear.id.au> writes:
> > Yeah, yeah, I should finish one module before making another.  What
> > can I say, I like my Python generators and I was intrigued to see if I
> > could do it in C.
> >
> > This draft is very limited - generators can't take parameters and
> > always return ints.  I have some ideas on how to fix that, but for now
> > wanted to send this out for comment.  Frankly, I'm kind of stoked it
> > worked even this much.
> >
> > Generators are a limited for of co-routine, which people may be familiar
> > with from Python.  This module adds an implementation of generators for C.
> 
> This *is* very cool!
> 
> Using fibbonaci as an example would be more expressive, I believe,
> BTW.

Yeah, I was thinking about that.  The wrinkle is that the Fibonacci
series is infinite, of course, so it raises extra questions about
cleaning up a generator before completion.

Not that those don't need to be addressed anyway.

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