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cynwoody on Dec 12, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Coroutine Event Loops in Javascript

>Calling send() with no arguments is functionally the same as calling .next(), but last I heard it would throw an error.

I just tried one in Firefox 17, and you can prime it by calling send() with no argument. It objects if there is an argument on the initial send().

hrldcpr on Dec 12, 2012 | [–]

Yeah this is a nice advantage of Javascript over Python:

send() is equivalent to send(undefined) which is equivalent to next().

This equivalence is true in Python as well, but you have to explicitly call send(None) which is annoying.

thejsjunky on Dec 12, 2012 | [–]

Ah, yes you're right.

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