Re: Suggestion for naming

[Asko Kauppi <askok@...>]

There was a loooong thread ;) about this on the list lately:

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2007-08/msg00267.html


Colin kirjoitti 24.10.2007 kello 19:45:

> Hi,
>
> while most of Lua is rather consistent with respect to itself (which
> is good), there is one place where I feel that there is something that
> would benefit from a changed:
>
> The type of the object returned by coroutine.create should be called
> "coroutine", not "thread".
>
> I would find it more consistent to not speak of threads in the context
> of coroutines; this would also "free" the word "thread" for use in a
> "real" threading library, etc.
>
> Regards, Colin