Re: Generators in PHP

From: Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 20:46:13 +0000
Subject: Re: Generators in PHP
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On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Nikita Popov <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi internals!
>
> In the last few days I've created a proof of concept implementation
> for generators in PHP. It's not yet complete, but the basic
> functionality is there:
> https://github.com/nikic/php-src/tree/addGeneratorsSupport
>
> The implementation is outlined in the RFC-stub here:
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/generators

A small progress update on this:

* There now is support for yield by reference
* Generators are now automatically detected by the presence of "yield"
instead of requiring the "*" modifier.

The main open point I still have is whether or not generators should
have a throw() method (á la Python). I couldn't yet find a convincing
use case for it, so I'm considering to just leave it out.

If there is any further feedback on the proposal, I'd love to hear it :)

Nikita


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