See if yield positions_to_evaluate can be useful when writing ask-and-tell

[MichaelClerx]

See https://pythontips.com/2013/09/29/the-python-yield-keyword-explained/

Might be useful for some algorithms that are hard to break up, or might just make it harder to read :D

[MichaelClerx]

See also @martinjrobins 's cool work on NUTS

[martinjrobins]

I found this actually made the code easier to read, because you don't need to break up the algorithm across an ask/tell divide. Main problem with this is that Python's support for this is changing rapidly, the yield syntax for co-routines is deprecated and will be removed from 3.10 onward. And it is not supported by python v2

[MichaelClerx]

Possibly worth revisiting this at some point, but have turned it into a discussion rather than a pressing issue for now!