From: Rahul Kumar <rahulsinner@...>
Date: 2011-05-19T00:50:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Making fibers enumerable

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On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Robert Klemme
<shortcutter@googlemail.com>wrote:

>
> > If I understand correctly, writing generators was one of the purposes of
> > fibers. Why can't fibers be made enumerable by default?
>
> I am not sure how that interacts with the original intent of Fibers:
> their main purpose is to bring coroutines to Ruby.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coroutines


Right. But aren't semi co-routines(don't send data; just receive) used to
implement generators?



> http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Enumerator.html#M000299
>
> fib_gen = Enumerator.new { |y|
>  a = b = 1
>  loop {
>     y << a
>    a, b = b, a + b
>  }
> }
>
>
Oh, didn't know about this - somehow "The Ruby Programming Language" doesn't
mention it or I missed it. I simply translated my Python code to Ruby.


Thanks for the info Robert.

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