Re: cooperative multitasking

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

> coroutine.create(f) creates a coroutine (that part is easy ;-). From
> the point of view of Lua, a coroutine is a function. When you call that
> function, "f" (the coroutine "body") starts execution (as if you have
> called "f" directly).
> 
> However, at any point during its execution, "f" may call
> "coroutine.yield(...)". (Actually, not only "f", but any function called
> by "f".)  At that point, the coroutine stops its execution, and control
> goes back to the call to "f" (that is, to the caller it is as if "f"
> has returned). But when the caller calls the coroutine again, it continues
> its execution from the point where it has yielded. That is, "yield"
> suspends the execution of the coroutine, which can be resumed later.

Amazing, not only I understood your explainations, but I think I also
understood the "primes" example. Thanks for answering so quickly and for your
cristal clear explanations, as usual.

Stop me if I say something stupid, but is seems that f is not only a
function, but also a closure. Ie. in your example, n is frozen.
So your program just divide all numbers by all numbers and output those
found prime.
Mmm, that's not so simple, x is dynamic, ouch...

OK, I will study your code more, even if I understand the bases of
co-routines now.

Thank you.

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