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::: Looking at the WP [[wp:Generator_(disambiguation)|disambiguation page]], there seems to be no confusion as to the meaning of Generator within the Computing context, with all ''other'' forms having to be qualified. Since this is a computing site, I think the name would not overly confuse. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 14:06, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
::: 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)
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