Re: [RFC Discuss] Generator Delegation

Daniel Lowrey wrote on 01/03/2015 23:52:

Hi folks, I'd like to initiate discussion on a proposal to implement generator delegation via the following new syntax inside generator functions:

     yield * <expr>

The Generator Delegation RFC is available here: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/generator-delegation This proposal is conceptually related to (and requires functionality proposed by) the forerunning Generator Return Expressions RFC here: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/generator-return-expressions Thanks for your time, Daniel

Could you explain a bit more about how the generator return functionality is necessary for this? It seems to me like it's still just a "nice to have", and that the main functionality - delegating from one generator to another - is completely separate. Or is there some common use case that only makes sense if you combine the two features? The reason I ask is that "yield from" (or whatever syntax) sounds useful, but I'm not that keen on allowing "return" in generators, because I can see it further muddying the water between functions and generators: when you call the following "function", it doesn't actually return 1 as it would appear at a glance, because the existence of a yield statement elsewhere in the body magically makes it return a Generator object instead: function foo() { // potentially many lines of code yield 1; // potentially many more lines of code return 1; } I would personally have preferred generators to have used a distinct keyword rather than just looking like functions, but since that ship has sailed, making them look even more like functions worries me. Is there perhaps some other syntax that could be used for this "generator result value"? Regards, -- Rowan Collins [IMSoP]