Re: Generators in PHP

hakre wrote:

Also, currently yield looks very similar to return and I think this is a nice thing as it is similar semantically. yield($foo) would give it different semantics, imho.

I love this point a lot. Return is very common and yield is some kind of return. I agree also: yield behaves far more like a return statement than a function call. (In a sense, a yield is a return that doesn't discard the current function's execution state.)

Which (as it happens) reminds me of the difference between return $foo; and return ($foo);