It was `generate`, but we were not sure that bindi...
# coroutines
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It was
generate
, but we were not sure that binding
generate
to
Sequence
was the right choice. You might want to have a library that lazily constructs Java 8 Stream, for example, and name it
generate
for yourself. It would have been inappropriate to effectively reserve this name for Kotlin’s sequences. The
build
prefix came from other Kotlin naming conventions.