AST macros

[David B. Held]

Daniel Keep wrote:
> 
> [...]
> Cooperative multithreading does not a coroutine make.  Fibers, IIRC, are
> just stack-based threads.  Coroutines are *entirely different*, although
> in this particular case they are implemented *using* stack threads.
> [...]

Wikipedia seems to think they are essentially the same thing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_%28computer_science%29

Fibers are less than stack-based threads because they are cooperative. 
Whereas in a coroutine you write "return", in a fiber you write "yield". 
  Otherwise, I believe they are closely isomorphic.

Dave