Alternative forms

• co-routine

Etymology

From co- +‎ routineCategory:English terms prefixed with co-#ROUTINE, coined by Melvin Conway in 1958.

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Noun

coroutine (plural coroutines)Category:English lemmas#COROUTINECategory:English nouns#COROUTINECategory:English countable nouns#COROUTINECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#COROUTINECategory:Pages with entries#COROUTINECategory:Pages with 1 entry#COROUTINE

1. (programmingCategory:en:Programming#COROUTINE) 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.Category:English terms with usage examples#COROUTINE

   • 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).

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   • 2015, Luciano Ramalho, Fluent Python: Clear, Concise, and Effective Programming, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 479:

     Python coroutines are the product of a series of enhancements to the humble generator functions we've seen so far in the book.

     Category:English terms with quotations#COROUTINE

Further reading

• coroutine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia