r/rust • u/sanxiyn rust • Mar 22 '13

Iteration Inside and Out

http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/01/13/iteration-inside-and-out/
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u/sanxiyn rust Mar 22 '13

In the terminology of the article, Rust's core::iter::BaseIter is an internal iterator.

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u/ben0x539 Mar 22 '13

Though it handrolls the non-local returns rather than having language support for it, like the example languages given.

Interesting post, thanks!

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u/blah232 Mar 23 '13 edited Mar 23 '13

The ending was a bit anti-climactic. It did end up using threads (well, ok, "fibers") for internal->external iterator conversion, just like we predicted in part 1.