Generators
A generator is a type of coroutine that yields values back to its caller. For example, at the beginning of this chapter, I demonstrated how the generator iota() yielded increasing integer values. By implementing a general-purpose generator type that can act as an iterator, we can simplify the work of implementing iterators that are compatible with range-based for-loops, standard library algorithms, and ranges. Once we have a generator template class in place, we can reuse it.
So far in this book, you have mostly seen iterators in the context of accessing container elements and when using standard library algorithms. However, an iterator does not have to be tied to a container. It's possible to write iterators that produce values.
Implementing a generator
The generator we are about to implement is based on the generator from the CppCoro library. The generator template is intended to be used as a return type for coroutines that produces a sequence of values...
