Meaning of coroutine | Babel Free

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A piece of code that performs a task, and that can be passed new input and return output more than once.

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“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.”

“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).”

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

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