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Document number: N3985

Date: 2014-05-06

A proposal to add coroutines to the C++ standard library (Revision 1)

by Oliver Kowalke and Nat Goodspeed

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Changes in this revision

This document supersedes N3708. A new kind of coroutines -- std::symmetric_coroutine<T>
-- is introduced and additional examples (like recursive SAX parsing) are added.

A section explains the benfits of using coroutines in the context of event-based asynchronous model.