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As you say, a generator is only one variation.
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::: It's named “generator” because that's the name of a particular variation on the theme of coroutines (i.e., ones that go back to their caller while producing a value each time). That the values may be viewed as a sequence is tangential. Generators are interesting particularly because they can implement non-trivial transforms (e.g., where each input value can produce a variable number of output values) which can be hard to express with other approaches. –[[User:Dkf|Donal Fellows]] 14:26, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
:::: As you say, a generator is only one variation. We should maybe include this is the title, so we have forms Generator/A, Generator/B, etc. There are also generators that are not a generator at all in this sense, such as parametric generators and code generators, which all come under the context of computing. I still advise rename. --[[User:Markhobley|Markhobley]] 15:58, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
:::: Ok, tooting my own horn here a bit, but I put together a nice little Python module for [https://code.google.com/p/dastoobnet/source/browse/multi_m1/filterstack.py using stacked generators] as a filter chain. The docs might be illuminating in this discussion. [http://codepad.org/S7lYcnpO Here's its demo output], on Codepad.--[[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]] 15:16, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
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