Generators aren't for you, then, they are for people like me who, for example, used a C# generator for yielding tokens, or, for example, use generators to iterate element by element through multi-dimensional arrays.
-- Sent from Samsung Mobile Andrew Faulds http://ajf.me/ Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk> wrote: Sherif Ramadan wrote: > I don't see anything about these particular features that isn't > already documented. Albeit there are parts of the documentation that > could always use a bit of refinement every now and then. With that > said, the manual isn't a place to tell people "how" a particular > feature should be used, but how it "can" be used and to what > consequence. The actual use is left up to the developer and we all > know there is more than one way any given developer likes to implement > things in any language. My only 'complaint' is that while there is a lot of 'documentation' it is all somewhat fragmented. There is nothing which provides a 'good practice' guide, and all of the examples returned by google searches nowadays are well behind the times. Everything is well documented in it's own little niche, but nothing provides a guide to link the whole into a coherent 'strict compliant' practice? Generators are scratching another itch, from a base that I never started from. My CSV scanners have always read in and processed blocks of data. The fundamental mistake in the rfc is 'getLinesFromFile' not processing each line as it is loaded. I do a LOT of database data processing which 'generate' results sets, and the example of 'rewinding a generator' is much better handled by a function that handles the cursor position on the data set. So I'm still not seeing anywhere that 'generator' has a pressing application? Perhaps because I already have library code that scratches the particular itch? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
