Internal and external iteration, fibers

[Sean Kelly]

On Jan 15, 2013, at 4:52 AM, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote:

> The author of the experimental language Magpie is very intelligent (in past I have read a very nice blog post about the unusual bootstrapped type system of Magpie). Here he nicely discusses well known things:
> 
> http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/01/13/iteration-inside-and-out/
> 
> Reddit thread:
> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/16ja3f/iteration_inside_and_out/
> 
> A person on Reddit ("munificent", I think the blog post author himself) says that Magpie uses fibers to solve that dilemma, to be seen in a successive post.
> 
> In D the Range static protocol of iteration is external and opApply is internal. Some persons have suggested to use fibers in D to introduce a very handy "yield" syntax for internal iteration.
> 
> I think similarly short but clear article, about D Ranges and opApply should be added in the articles (http://dlang.org/articles.html ) section of the D site.

Maybe someone could crib from Mikola's talk:

http://vimeo.com/1873969