Re: [Caml-list] Generators/iterators and lazy evaluation?

[Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com>]

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:

> Alain Frisch wrote:
> 
> > I think you cannot implement this notion of iterator without some kind
> > of control flow operator (at runtime) or some code rearrangement (at
> > compile time). The point is that you must mainting several active
> > "threads" of computations, including their own stack.
> 
> Alain, I think you may have misunderstood Python's yeild operator.
> Typically the original poster's pow2 generators would be used like:
> 
>     for p = pow2 (10):
>         print p

I should add, that when the yeild operator is used in Python, there is no
separate thread of execution like there would be for say pthead_yeild()
in POSIX threads. Python's yeild is very much closer to Lazy evaluation
in Ocaml.

Erik
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