coroutine
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See also: co-routine
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Etymology
co- + routine, coined by Melvin Conway in 1958.
Noun
coroutine (plural coroutines)
- (programming) A piece of code that performs a task, and that can be passed new input and return output more than once.
- Although a powerful tool, coroutines can be hard to understand due to the way data can flow back and forth between sections of the code.
- 2010, Robert W. Sebesta, Concepts of Programming Languages, Addison-Wesley Longman, page 440:
- The actual origin of the concept of symmetric unit control is difficult to determine. One of the earliest published applications of coroutines was in the area of syntax analysis (Conway, 1963).
Hyponyms
- subroutine (“a coroutine that accepts input once and returns output once”)
- generator (“a coroutine that accepts input once, but yields output multiple times”)
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