From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Matthias Benkard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: The fundamental concept of continuations Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 05:05:24 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1191931524.047907.98040__36931.5804484815$1191933649$gmane$org@v3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> References: <1191906949.179197.217470@57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1191933644 31478 80.91.229.12 (9 Oct 2007 12:40:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 12:40:44 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 09 14:40:41 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IfEO5-0001tW-Tr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:40:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IfEO0-000416-9q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Oct 2007 08:40:32 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!v3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme, comp.lang.lisp, comp.lang.functional, gnu.emacs.help, comp.lang.python Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.151.217.17 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1191931524 13089 127.0.0.1 (9 Oct 2007 12:05:24 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 12:05:24 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1191906949.179197.217470@57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.5) KHTML/3.5.7 (like Gecko),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: v3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=84.151.217.17; posting-account=ps2QrAMAAAA6_jCuRt2JEIpn5Otqf_w0 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu comp.lang.scheme:74392 comp.lang.lisp:230799 comp.lang.functional:62597 gnu.emacs.help:152754 comp.lang.python:515539 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:48260 Archived-At: > (3) Is it present in python ...? I don't keep up to date with the recent developments in Python land, but the last time I used Python, it certainly didn't have first-class continuations. There used to be a project called Stackless Python that tried to add continuations to Python, but as far as I know, it has always been separate from the official Python interpreter. I don't know whether it's still alive. You may want to check http://stackless.com/ for details. > (6) any good readable references that explain it lucidly ? If you are familiar with Python syntax, there's http://www.ps.uni-sb.de/~duchier/python/continuations.html -- and even if you aren't, you may want to have a look at it, as simple Python code is ridiculously easy to read. ~ Matthias