@yield all but last

[davidavdav]

Hi,

This package fills a great omission in Julia (I don't understand why things can't be just as simple as in python---I get the impression that things are better and more general in Julia with tasks and coroutines, and even better things that outdate these, but I can't figure out how to use them).

However, here @yield should produce all but the last element, and last element should be the return value of the resumable function.

That is not handy.

Having julia have base-1 indexing is already not handy for many purposes, but then having to deal with the last element separately make code even hairier.

It would be great if @yield would just return all elements.

[davidavdav]

Excuse me, I was mistaken.

The "better things that outdate these" are called Channels.

The proper method for a python-style generator function hence is

fibonacci(n) = Channel() do c
	a = 1
	b = 1
	for i in 1:n
		push!(c, a)
		a, b = b, a + b
	end
end

The problem, really, is finding this idiom when searching for generator julia.