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From: Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru>
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Subject: Re: Generators/coroutines in future Ada?
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 21:36:24 +0300
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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.

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Victor Porton - http://portonvictor.org