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		dragonwriter on Feb 13, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: McCarthy's Ambiguous Operator (2005) Python yield actually supports coroutines with bidirectional communication, not just unidirectional iterators; while not as full featured as callcc, these cover quite a lot of the use cases.

billsix on Feb 13, 2019 [–]

Agreed regarding use cases. My scheme implementation does both yield and send, cleanly imho, because of call/cc.

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