On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 8:03 AM Amirouche Boubekki <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

generator-scatter will unroll a generator of generators as flat generator.

That's pretty cool, and I wish I had thought of it for SRFI 158.  However, the word
"scatter" suggests taking things from a single place and putting them into many places.
I think a better name would be gconcatenate.
 
nstore-query will chain generators operations. Here is the
implementation:

I've been thinking about chained generators for a while, but I haven't got anything
that suits me yet.  I also have thought about the function accumulate-generated-values,
which generates all the values of its first argument and accumulates them in its second
argument.  If can find something I like for chaining, I'll issue a replacement for SRFI 158.

I'd want the chaining operator to be a function operating on generators and g-functions
rather than a macro.  What might be a Good Thing, though, is a wrapper (function or macro)
that provides the boilerplate for writing generators, and you just pass in a function
or representation of a function (if it's a macro) that accepts an argument, the current
state, and returns two values, the generated result and the new state.


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