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Co-routines in C (chiark.greenend.org.uk)

7 points by scharan ↗ HN
Read this article on three different occasions to understand its intent. It finally clicked when I read this:

"...co-routines save the control state of a function between calls. Kinda like recursion - you know exactly where are you going to return after a function call...When you call a co-routine, it doesn’t start all over from the beginning. Rather, it starts from right after where it returned (yielded control) the previous time it was called."

Source:http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2009/08/29/co-routines-as-an-alternative-to-state-machines/

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mgreenbe
A neat trick, but also one of the better arguments for more principled macro systems. These macros are fragile, and the error messages for misuse must be inscrutable. So: cool, but I hope I never have to use it.