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I'll wait some time for people to be able to gather and show references to backup the article. If that doesn't happen, I'll edit it to describe the concept of generators in general. [[User:Nowhere man|Nowhere man]] 12:54, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
:I even found a contradictory source. In "Iterators: Signs of Weakness in Object-Oriented Languages" (1992), H. Baker states the following about iterators as found in CLU and C++:
::''Iterators are a 1980's version of the 1950's concept of generators. A generator is a subroutine which is called like a function, but returns a "new" value every time it is called (i.e., it is emphatically not a mathematical function). The "random number generator" is prototypic of a generator.''
:With this new information in hands, I will not wait to modify the article. [[User:Nowhere man|Nowhere man]] 17:38, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
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