From: George Neuner <gneuner2/@/comcast.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: The fundamental concept of continuations
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 00:17:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5cq5h3t7vk34famfl4od79vrlul32p2iss@4ax.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: feu6r7$ccu$1@lust.ihug.co.nz
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 11:56:39 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro
<ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote:
>In message <see-36543E.18592809102007@lust.ihug.co.nz>, Barb Knox wrote:
>
>> Instead of function A returning to its caller, the
>> caller provides an additional argument (the "continuation") which is a
>> function B to be called by A with A's result(s).
>
>That's just a callback. I've been doing that in C code (and other
>similar-level languages) for years.
Callbacks are a form of continuation. However, general continuations
such as those in Scheme, carry with them their execution context.
This allows them to used directly for things like user-space
threading.
George
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2007-10-09 5:59 ` The fundamental concept of continuations Barb Knox
2007-10-09 6:07 ` Bakul Shah
2007-10-09 6:09 ` .
[not found] ` <see-36543E.18592809102007@lust.ihug.co.nz>
2007-10-09 6:24 ` gnuist006
[not found] ` <1191911045.604596.50110@19g2000hsx.googlegroups.com>
2007-10-09 13:21 ` Joel J. Adamson
2007-10-14 22:56 ` Lawrence D'Oliveiro
2007-10-15 4:17 ` George Neuner [this message]
[not found] ` <470b1aa6$0$79886$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>
2007-10-09 6:33 ` gnuist006
[not found] ` <1191911604.169846.244430@r29g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>
2007-10-09 7:15 ` Bakul Shah
2007-10-09 7:11 ` Peter Danenberg
2007-10-09 12:05 ` Matthias Benkard
[not found] ` <470b1b30$0$11022$4c368faf@roadrunner.com>
2007-10-09 6:34 ` gnuist006
[not found] ` <1191911662.983658.79540@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>
2007-10-09 10:00 ` Tim Bradshaw
[not found] ` <1191924032.449463.13290@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com>
2007-10-09 10:13 ` Diez B. Roggisch
2007-10-09 12:50 ` Matthias Blume
2007-10-09 13:50 ` josephoswald+gg@gmail.com
2007-10-09 19:20 ` gnuist006
[not found] ` <m2641g1mgn.fsf@my.address.elsewhere>
2007-10-09 19:37 ` gnuist006
2007-10-09 20:41 ` Chung-chieh Shan
2007-10-10 0:47 ` Matthias Blume
[not found] ` <ok5tt4-2ij.ln1@mantle.rutgers.edu>
2007-10-10 4:52 ` Marlene Miller
[not found] ` <1191957606.187050.272820@v3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>
2007-10-09 20:32 ` .
2007-10-09 18:18 ` George Neuner
[not found] ` <m5ang3h11oorvsrkit4q1moi6mirofbdbr@4ax.com>
2007-10-09 19:24 ` gnuist006
2007-10-09 19:27 ` Jeff M.
2007-10-10 4:39 ` Marlene Miller
[not found] ` <8IYOi.658994$p47.379449@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>
2007-10-10 4:46 ` Marlene Miller
2007-10-10 7:11 ` Dmitri Minaev
2007-10-10 10:49 ` David Kastrup
[not found] ` <85zlyrutux.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
2007-10-11 7:18 ` George Neuner
[not found] ` <rqhrg3d2thcqaip790k1eb6t8cdk2g8d8v@4ax.com>
2007-10-12 19:17 ` David Kastrup
[not found] ` <85lka8p2h4.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
2007-10-13 3:11 ` Rob Warnock
2007-10-13 3:13 ` Paul Rubin
[not found] ` <1191931524.047907.98040@v3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>
2007-10-13 23:14 ` Alex Martelli
2007-10-09 5:15 gnuist006
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