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Its not about power its about expressiveness. For example, in Python you can't pass a generator function as an argument to `map`, since map doesn't use yields w
by ufo 14y ago
Its not about power its about expressiveness. For example, in Python you can't pass a generator function as an argument to `map`, since map doesn't use yields when calling its argument. On the other hand, in Lua the "generator-ness" is a runtime concept instead of a syntactic one so you can pass a generator to `map` and it will still work fine.
I won't bother asking what model is the better one. The Python version is more rigid but its also more explicit...
- chubot 14y agoNo, Python has BOTH generators and coroutines. Lua has only coroutines. You're thinking of them as alternatives, whereas Python has a superset of what Lua has. Builtin map() is for generators only. You can write map for coroutines as well: def mapcoro(func, target): while True: value = (yield) target.send(func(value)) (untested, I think you need to catch StopIteration around the yield line) You can do everything with Python coroutines that you can do with Lua coroutines. You could say that Python doesn't need generators, but that's a different argument. I agree it is confusing... I was confused for a long time.