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From: Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru>
Subject: Re: Generators/coroutines in future Ada?
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 21:36:24 +0300
Date: 2017-07-11T21:36:24+03:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ok35rg$1orv$1@gioia.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ok2jfj$t2$1@dont-email.me

J-P. Rosen wrote:

> Le 11/07/2017 à 15:01, Victor Porton a écrit :
>> I've realized how to imitate closures with generics.
>> 
>> But is there is a way to add generators to Ada?
> 
> AFAIU, generators are functions with states, where the returned value at
> one call depends on the state that was left behind by the previous call.

This state also includes the point of execution (like "We are in the second 
loop in its second operator.")

> This can easily be achieved with a function within a package, where the
> package serves to protect and hide the function's state.

Ada currently has no support to save such (point of execution) states.

-- 
Victor Porton - http://portonvictor.org


  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-07-11 18:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-09 20:19 Generators/coroutines in future Ada? Victor Porton
2017-07-09 21:28 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2017-07-09 23:56   ` Victor Porton
2017-07-10  7:33   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-07-10 13:38 ` Victor Porton
2017-07-10 17:01   ` Paul Rubin
2017-07-10 21:24     ` Victor Porton
2017-07-12 17:09       ` Paul Rubin
2017-07-12 17:39         ` Victor Porton
2017-07-13  6:35           ` Paul Rubin
2017-07-11  9:42   ` J-P. Rosen
2017-07-11 12:52     ` Victor Porton
2017-07-11 13:01       ` Victor Porton
2017-07-11 13:26         ` J-P. Rosen
2017-07-11 16:04           ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2017-07-11 16:59           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-07-11 19:52             ` Pascal Obry
2017-07-11 20:18               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-07-11 18:36           ` Victor Porton [this message]
2017-07-11 19:22             ` J-P. Rosen
2017-07-11 20:25               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-07-11 23:19                 ` Victor Porton
2017-07-12  4:54                   ` J-P. Rosen
2017-07-12 13:07                     ` Victor Porton
2017-07-12 13:38                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-07-12  5:35                   ` Randy Brukardt
2017-07-12  7:27                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-07-12 22:47                     ` Shark8
2017-07-16 13:11                       ` Robert Eachus
2017-07-17 23:54                       ` Randy Brukardt
2017-07-18  7:38                         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-07-12  7:19                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-07-12  6:35                 ` G.B.
2017-07-12  7:34                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-07-12 20:49                     ` G.B.
2017-07-13  8:18                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-07-12 17:34           ` Paul Rubin
2017-07-11 19:27         ` Simon Wright
2017-07-12  5:42     ` darkestkhan
2017-07-12  8:57     ` Maciej Sobczak
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