From: Bulat Ziganshin <bulatz@...>
Date: 2003-01-24T20:29:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Definition: iterator

Hello Martin,

Thursday, January 23, 2003, 3:02:10 AM, you wrote:
>> I do wish we had a name for "methods that
>> call yield." In Ruby we've traditionally
>> called them "iterators" (witness the 
>> iterator? method as David pointed out).

MD> Hm - something involving the phrase 'coroutines', perhaps. What's the
MD> singular of coroutines?

technically speaking, it's a higher-order function, or functional

it's not coroutine, because
1) we can call block several times
2) we can't return control from middle of block

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