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Co-routines as an alternative to state machines (2009)
When you have to traverse some sort of a nested data structure (say, a binary tree), one approach is to create a stack that remembers where in the tree you are. Another, much more elegant approach, is to write the function recursively. A recursive function employs the machine stack used to implicitly implement…
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| Apr 30, 2014 | Co-routines as an alternative to state machines (2009) by adamnemecek | 131 | 69 |
| Aug 29, 2009 | Co-routines as an alternative to state machines by gthank | 73 | 31 |
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