Re:My favorite prime number generator
by philipLutz on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @12:10PM
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"I can't try to rewrite it in C++ or Rust for now, due to the lack of generator support; the yield statement is what makes this code so nice and elegant, and alternative idioms are much less convenient."
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That is the context of the first sentence in your comment, pretty much the only part I left alone.
Everything I replied to is the opinion you personally expressed.
And note that the author had already preempted your comment in the first place:
> When we want a list of all the primes below some known limit, gen_primes_upto is great, and performs fairly well. There are two issues with it, though:
> We have to know what the limit is ahead of time; this isn't always possible or convenient.