[squeak-dev] Re: Generators in Smalltalk?
Andreas Raab
andreas.raab at gmx.de
Wed Feb 10 08:37:33 UTC 2010
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
> never saw a practical use of Generators in Smalltalk.
I have had some situations where I wanted them. Eliot's compression
example is one of them - wrapping the algorithm into a Generator would
allow trivial use of the algorithm recursively. Of course, the algorithm
could be rewritten to do that iteratively but it's just nice and
convenient to have a generator at hand that does it for you.
Cheers,
- Andreas
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