[squeak-dev] Re: Generators in Smalltalk?
Martin Kuball
martinkuball at web.de
Mon Feb 15 15:11:01 UTC 2010
Am Thursday 11 February 2010 schrieb Andreas Raab:
> Lukas Renggli wrote:
> > I've fixed that. There could be more bugs, as I've never used them
> > beyond the anecdotical examples showing off runtime reflection.
>
> I uploaded a version that fixes two more issues, one affecting the use
> of reset and unwind blocks and one that affected error handling in
> Generators. If people want to try this, you can install:
>
> Installer installUrl:
> 'http://source.lukas-renggli.ch/continuations/Generator-ar.5.mcz'
>
> and check it out. To me this looks pretty damn ready for use, if I hear
> no strong objections be prepared to find this merged into the
> Collections package Real Soon Now.
>
> Cheers,
> - Andreas
>
Andreas,
this generator stuff is really cool. It helped me find a solution to a problem I have using a coroutine.
I couldn't use a generator because in my case the producer is the one controling the process,
So I build my own version of a coroutine following your Generator class.
While studying your code I stumbled upon "[self fork] value" in method reset. Question is, why the block here? wouldn't self fork suffice?
And while comparing with the class from Stephen Pair I asked myself why you didn't implement a finalize methode. Or rather why Stephen tought it necessary to do so.
Would be nice if you could shed some more light on this.
Martin
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