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From: Chung-chieh Shan <ccshan@cs.rutgers.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: The fundamental concept of continuations
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 16:41:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ok5tt4-2ij.ln1__15848.2049977922$1192017451$gmane$org@mantle.rutgers.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1191958673.182295.207190@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com

gnuist006@gmail.com wrote in article <1191958673.182295.207190@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com> in comp.lang.functional:
> > One of the most lucid explanations of definitional interpreters --
> > including those that are based on continuation-passing -- are
> > explained in J. Reynolds' famous 1971 "Definitional Interpreters for
> > Higher-Order Functions" paper.  (It has been re-published in 1998 in
> > HOSC.)  The paper also explains how to perform defunctionalization,
> > which can be seen as a way to compile (and even hand-compile)
> > higher-order programs.
> 
> Matthias, thanks for the reference, but I dont have access to an
> engineering library. I would appreciate, if you have access to paper/
> scanner or electronic copy to help many of us out, you are
> not just helping me but many will thank you.

If nothing else, please use Google.  Many will thank you.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Definitional+Interpreters+for+Higher-Order+Functions&btnG=Search

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-09 20:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1191906949.179197.217470@57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com>
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
     [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
2007-10-09 18:18 ` George Neuner
     [not found] ` <470b1b30$0$11022$4c368faf@roadrunner.com>
2007-10-09  6:34   ` gnuist006
     [not found]   ` <1191911662.983658.79540@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>
2007-10-09 10:00     ` Tim Bradshaw
     [not found]     ` <1191924032.449463.13290@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com>
2007-10-09 10:13       ` Diez B. Roggisch
2007-10-09 12:50   ` Matthias Blume
2007-10-09 13:50   ` josephoswald+gg@gmail.com
2007-10-09 19:20   ` gnuist006
     [not found]   ` <m2641g1mgn.fsf@my.address.elsewhere>
2007-10-09 19:37     ` gnuist006
2007-10-09 20:41       ` Chung-chieh Shan [this message]
2007-10-10  0:47       ` Matthias Blume
     [not found]       ` <ok5tt4-2ij.ln1@mantle.rutgers.edu>
2007-10-10  4:52         ` Marlene Miller
     [not found]   ` <1191957606.187050.272820@v3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>
2007-10-09 20:32     ` .
     [not found] ` <m5ang3h11oorvsrkit4q1moi6mirofbdbr@4ax.com>
2007-10-09 19:24   ` gnuist006
2007-10-09 19:27 ` Jeff M.
2007-10-10  4:39 ` Marlene Miller
     [not found] ` <8IYOi.658994$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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