What does `return function *(){...}` mean? [duplicate]

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This question already has answers here: What is "function*" in JavaScript? (4 answers) Closed 7 years ago.I saw something strange in Koa. It has some new function names (from https://github.com/koajs/koa/blob/master/examples/co.js#L10):

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