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I get iterators of this yield-sort, in other languages.

I still grumble every time I have to implement one. Something about the interface just bothers me. Feels sloppy.

That's the nature of the craft. If you go down the road of eradicating all the things that are a little bit sloppy and inelegant, you eventually end up with something like Haskell (with a lot of extensions) and lose most of other developers along the way.

See, iterators [edit: and “yield” in general] feel Haskelly to me.

Then again I can only understand key Haskell concepts when they’re explained using any of several other languages (then they’re typically very easy to understand) so maybe I’m not the best judge of what is or is not Haskell-like.

Kinda funny, given that the Haskell iterator solution is "convert your data to be a list, and the optimizer and RTS will do the right thing as if it were an iterator."

that sounds like a good thing

Right until you have to hire.

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