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A comment on Swift Standard Library: Generators, Sequences and Collections.

Re:Swift Standard Library: Generators, Sequences and Collect... by tlrobinson on Tuesday December 30, 2014 @02:15PM (#8816143)
"So a generator is simply something that can give you the next element of some sequence of elements."

Is this a common usage of the word "generator"?

At least in JavaScript and Python you'd call that an "iterator", and a "generator" is a special type of function that acts as an iterator, using the "yield" keyword.

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Re:Swift Standard Library: Generators, Sequences and Collect... by nickfargo on Tuesday December 30, 2014 @03:51PM (#8816672)
A generator is an iterator created and returned by a generator function.
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