Coroutine

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A piece of code that performs a task, and that can be passed new input and return output more than once.

    "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."

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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."

Etymology

From co- + routine, coined by Melvin Conway in 1958.

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