From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2007-08-23T06:39:43+09:00
Subject: Re: coroutines with Fiber::Core

> From: MenTaLguY [mailto:mental@rydia.net] 
> Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 3:31 PM
> To: ruby-core@ruby-lang.org
> 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.

In Perl-land it's "Coro":

http://search.cpan.org/~mlehmann/Coro-3.63/Coro.pm

Regards,

Dan


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