[External] : Re: Single Thread Continuation

[Robert Engels]

I don’t think it is any different than a database connection and a result set. You CAN close these but typically the system will perform fine if you don’t. The “costly” backend usually has alternative ways of dealing with “lazy” cleanup. 

> On Jul 11, 2023, at 8:57 AM, Andrew Haley <aph-open at littlepinkcloud.com> wrote:
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> On 7/11/23 14:49, Robert Engels wrote:
>> You don’t need a closable iterator. It is trivial to modify the code I provided to make the outer generator instance AutoClosable to be used with TwR and if the iterator is used after the outer is closed it fails with an IllegalStateException (or NoSuchElementException with ‘generator closed’ as the cause.
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> Sure. All I'm saying is that a generator must be closable in some way and
> that the consumer is responsible for doing that.
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