Talk:Generator (computer programming): Difference between revisions

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:: ''This article is about a type of function in computer science that behaves like an iterator. For other uses of the term in computing in general see [[Generator]].''

::You say that the articlesarticle "generally agrees with most of the computer science literature in it's use of that term". Could you give references of actual CS publications going in this direction? The article in itself is in contradiction with this claim, as it takes PRNG as an example, whereas PRNG typically don't behave like iterators, but are simply non referentially transparent functions of no argument. <small>—The preceding [[Wikipedia
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:::Generators first appeared in CLU (1975)[1]

::Although, the given article, "Iteration Abstraction in Sather", doesn't deal with generators at all. It's very subjects is named ''iterators'', and the term ''generator'' only appear a few times, in the last sections were the article makes comparisons with existing approaches of its subject. So long for the agreement of litterature in its use of that term...

::[[User:Nowhere man|Nowhere man]] 23:31, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

:Would that work? We could of course try to invent a broader-scoped definition, but I'm hesitant to do so. -- [[User:Dmeranda|Dmeranda]] 21:39, 24 April 2007 (UTC)