[Python-Dev] PEP 492: async/await in Python; version 4 (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Fri May 1 17:31:20 CEST 2015

On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 5:50 AM, Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de> wrote:

Yury Selivanov schrieb am 30.04.2015 um 03:30: > 1. Terminology: > - native coroutine term is used for "async def" functions.

When I read "native", I think of native (binary) code. So "native coroutine" sounds like it's implemented in some compiled low-level language. That might be the case (certainly in the CPython world), but it's not related to this PEP nor its set of examples.

> We should discuss how we will name new 'async def' coroutines in > Python Documentation if the PEP is accepted. Well, it doesn't hurt to avoid obvious misleading terminology upfront.

I think "obvious[ly] misleading" is too strong, nobody is trying to mislead anybody, we just have different associations with the same word. Given the feedback I'd call "native coroutine" suboptimal (even though I proposed it myself) and I am now in favor of using "async function".

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