Re: Generators in PHP

Mike Ford wrote:

The signposting needn't even be as in-your-face as a generator keyword (either instead of or in addition to function): I could get behind a variation such as: function f($x, $y) yields { ... yield $z; ... } Or even (stretching a bit to re-use an existing keyword!): function f($x, $y) return { ... yield $z; ... } Although I like the concept of generators, I would be -1 for any implementation that doesn't differentiate them in some way from regular functions. In other words you want to have return-value type-hinting _in one specific instance_: when calling f() returns a Generator object.