From: MenTaLguY <mental@...>
Date: 2007-08-23T06:30:46+09:00
Subject: Re: coroutines with Fiber::Core

On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 05:55:50 +0900, David Flanagan <david@davidflanagan.com> wrote:

>> BTW, I'm thinking about name "Fiber".  Current Fiber means
>> Semi-Coroutine.  Fiber::Core is Coroutine.  Yes, name of Fiber is
>> from Microsoft, but it's means Semi-Coroutine such as Lua's
>> coroutine and Python's generator.
> 
> How about just calling it a Coroutine?  Lua uses coroutine even though
> it is not a full coroutine.  I'd be more concerned about the method name
> yield: Fiber.yield is superficially similar, but deeply different from a
> regular ruby yield, and I think this could cause confusion.  How about
> using Fiber.return or even Fiber.coreturn?

I kind of like coreturn, actually.  It is sort of the dual to a regular
return, even.

Also, for comparison, Rubinius calls its equivalent of Fiber::Core Task;
all of the other coroutine/continuation/threading abstractions are built
atop it in Ruby code.

-mental