Re: [Haskell-cafe] How did iteratees get their names?

Hi Ertugrul,

Coroutines actually capture this kind of composition (where some code interrupts itself to hand control over to some other code) very well. Perhaps it would be better to use terms from that abstraction instead. In fact, iteratees are a special case of coroutines.

That would seem to make sense, if there is appropriate terminology. And if we are indeed talking about co-routines, i.e. cooperation between peers, routines of equal status, that would in itself suggest that the X-or and X-ee names that imply an asymmetric relationship are somewhat unfortunate choices conveying the wrong intuition. Best, /Henrik -- Henrik Nilsson School of Computer Science The University of Nottingham nhn@cs.nott.ac.uk