From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: async 1.0 Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 15:25:20 +0900 Message-ID: <877guya6jz.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <87vcij7rvi.fsf@mithlond.arda> <82d34r8ej9.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1340432742 9269 80.91.229.3 (23 Jun 2012 06:25:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 06:25:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs developers To: John Wiegley Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 23 08:25:39 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SiJmr-0007lT-19 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2012 08:25:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56166 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SiJmq-0000wo-Kd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2012 02:25:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:36273) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SiJmn-0000wj-BP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2012 02:25:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SiJml-0004yp-GA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2012 02:25:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mgmt1.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.223]:54392) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SiJml-0004sc-5j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2012 02:25:31 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt1.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62DCD3FA081D; Sat, 23 Jun 2012 15:25:20 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2A8581A355D; Sat, 23 Jun 2012 15:25:20 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 8.0.12-devo-585 under 21.5 (beta31) "ginger" b4715fcbe001 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 130.158.97.223 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:151103 Archived-At: John Wiegley writes: > One thing that would make async.el _incredibly_ useful would be a `call/cc' > function in Emacs. XEmacs efs (or maybe it's dired -- not to be confused with any dired in Emacs IIRC, you need the XEmacs versions) has an implementation of call/cc. I don't know how close to "true" call/cc it is. For correct info, ask Mike Sperber .