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> it's basically just some syntactic niceties over existing functionality. OK, cool! Can you point us to the existing functionality, or any example of it being

• dbaupp 11y ago
  Enums. This HN submission is an example.
  • acconsta 11y ago
    State machines aren't a general solution — you have to write a state machine by hand for every application. Stackless coroutines are — the compiler (or a clever library) transforms your ordinary function into a state machine.
    • dbaupp 11y ago
      Yes, I know. That's exactly what I mean by syntactic sugar: it is an automated way to write something that could already be written, but is annoying to do by hand.
      • acconsta 11y ago
        Oh, OK. When I hear syntactic sugar, I think of like a macro. Thanks though, I'm glad this is on the core team's radar.