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Re: SRFI 121: Generators John Cowan 06 Feb 2015 23:45 UTC

Arthur A. Gleckler scripsit:

> One suggestion: in the Rationale section, explain why it's a good idea to
> provide generators in Scheme since they're so similar to streams.  It would
> be especially good to list specific use cases in which code is more easily
> expressed as generators than as streams, or in which generator-based code
> is more efficient than streams-based code.  This will be especially helpful
> for people new to Scheme.

I'd love to do that, but I'm not sure what to say.  Hopefully someone else
can figure out some ideas, and I can pull together some appropriate prose.

I'd also like close reviews of this SRFI, with particular regard to what
procedures should be excluded or included.  I feel like this proposal is
groping in the dark.

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John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        xxxxxx@ccil.org
An observable characteristic is not necessarily a functional requirement.
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