From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Rubin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: The fundamental concept of continuations Date: 12 Oct 2007 20:13:58 -0700 Organization: Nightsong/Fort GNOX Message-ID: <7xy7e7yadl.fsf__6823.87195197425$1192250854$gmane$org@ruckus.brouhaha.com> References: <1191906949.179197.217470@57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com> <85zlyrutux.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85lka8p2h4.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1192250848 10738 80.91.229.12 (13 Oct 2007 04:47:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 04:47:28 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 13 06:47:17 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 1IgYu8-0000EC-J1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Oct 2007 06:47:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IgYu2-0005Ch-BP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Oct 2007 00:47:06 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!news.astraweb.com!border1.newsrouter.astraweb.com!news-out.octanews.net!indigo.octanews.net!auth.brown.octanews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme, comp.lang.lisp, comp.lang.functional, gnu.emacs.help, comp.lang.python User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Original-Lines: 8 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Oct 2007 22:14:00 CDT Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@octanews.net Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu comp.lang.scheme:74466 comp.lang.lisp:231030 comp.lang.functional:62652 gnu.emacs.help:152870 comp.lang.python:516137 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 00:45:05 -0400 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:48376 Archived-At: David Kastrup writes: > There is a Scheme implementation (I keep forgetting the name) which > actually does both: it actually uses the call stack but never returns, > and the garbage collection includes the stack. That would be Chicken Scheme. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_(Scheme_implementation)