Re: [Caml-list] Python's yield, Lisp's call-cc or C's setjmp/longjmp in OCaml

[Dustin Sallings <dustin@spy.net>]

On Dec 16, 2003, at 10:42, Brian Hurt wrote:

> By my measurements, Ocaml's exceptions are faster than C's 
> setjmp/longjmp.
> Ocaml doesn't provide first-class continuations, but most of the things
> people actually do with call-cc can be done in other ways in Ocaml.  I
> don't know what Python's yield instruction does.

Simple example:

from __future__ import generators

def number(max):
     for i in range(max):
         if(i % 2 == 0):
             yield i, "Even"
         else:
             yield i, "Odd"

for n in number(10):
     print n

	The output of this example is as follows:

(0, 'Even')
(1, 'Odd')
(2, 'Even')
(3, 'Odd')
(4, 'Even')
(5, 'Odd')
(6, 'Even')
(7, 'Odd')
(8, 'Even')
(9, 'Odd')

	It's basically a special case of an upward continuation (or is it 
downward? I'm bad with terminology).  I think you can get pretty close 
to this behavior with streams, but it's still not as easy as a return 
statement that has a resume type thing.

-- 
Dustin Sallings

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