Re: Generators in PHP

2012/7/26 Yahav Gindi Bar <g.b.yahav@gmail.com>: > "yielder" sounds quite weird don't you think (but my native language is not > English too.. so don't blame me at english stupid conclusions!) > >> Fact: generator is not a good keyword, because too common. > I can't see the connection... people relate the generator keyword to the iterators so > what's the problem using it? PHP will just complain in existing scripts if you use "generator" as function-name and stops compiling. I think this is stupid, but that's a completly different discussion. > what about using the "iterator" name as generators keyword? because it does return > iterators... well, wouldn't think, that it can be that easy. > iterator foo() { ... yield $bar; ... } sounds OK for me... and got a meaning too. > though it can confuse some people with the original iterators... But it's just what it does. > BTW: I still don't think that the generators need a unique word and I suggest using > functions, but I didn't read al the mails chain, so I assume that I'll find there the > answer. Of course you will! <making gestures>These are not the droids your looking for. Ups. wrong line. :) -- Alex Aulbach