Coroutine

Coroutines are computer program components that allow execution to be suspended and resumed, generalizing subroutines for cooperative multitasking. Coroutines are well-suited for implementing familiar program components such as cooperative tasks, exceptions, event loops, iterators, infinite lists and pipes.

They have been described as "functions whose execution you can pause".[1]

Melvin Conway coined the term coroutine in 1958 when he applied it to the construction of an assembly program.[2] The first published explanation of the coroutine appeared later, in 1963.[3]

  1. ^ "How the heck does async/await work in Python 3.5?". Tall, Snarky Canadian. 2016-02-11. Retrieved 2023-01-10.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference KnuthVol1_1_4_5 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Conway1963 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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