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| From | Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@canonical.org> |
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| Subject | coroutines (was Re: dynamic scoping in Forth in one line of code) |
| Date | Thu, 03 Sep 2026 20:38:30 -0300 |
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Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> writes: > Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@canonical.org> writes: >> I think you’ve internalized it sufficiently that it’s not surprising to >> you, but it was surprising to me when I encountered it a year and a half >> ago, at which point I’d been programming for 43 years and occasionally >> programming in Forth for 27 years. Maybe I'm just a slow learner. > > The idea has been in the literature for a long time (it's discussed at > length in Knuth vol. 1 from 1968), No, no, I know what coroutines are; I learned about them last millennium when I read Knuth vol. 1. My copy has pencil annotations in the margin expressing my skepticism; but, since then I’ve used Icon generators, Python generators, Python asyncio, Prolog backtracking, and Lua “coroutines,” which might more precisely be called “threads”. What surprised me was the extremely parsimonious mechanism of Van der Horst’s `co`. Kragen
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dynamic scoping in Forth in one line of code Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@canonical.org> - 2026-08-28 18:04 -0300
Re: dynamic scoping in Forth in one line of code Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2026-08-28 18:12 -0700
Re: dynamic scoping in Forth in one line of code Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@canonical.org> - 2026-08-29 10:50 -0300
Re: dynamic scoping in Forth in one line of code albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-08-29 12:10 +0200
Re: dynamic scoping in Forth in one line of code Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@canonical.org> - 2026-08-29 11:17 -0300
Re: dynamic scoping in Forth in one line of code albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-08-30 12:49 +0200
Re: dynamic scoping in Forth in one line of code Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@canonical.org> - 2026-09-01 20:38 -0300
Re: dynamic scoping in Forth in one line of code Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2026-09-01 17:15 -0700
coroutines (was Re: dynamic scoping in Forth in one line of code) Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@canonical.org> - 2026-09-03 20:38 -0300
Re: coroutines (was Re: dynamic scoping in Forth in one line of code) dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-09-04 15:24 +1000
dynamic scoping in Forth in one line of code (was Re: coroutines) Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@canonical.org> - 2026-09-04 13:04 -0300
Re: dynamic scoping in Forth in one line of code (was Re: coroutines) dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-09-05 02:59 +1000
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