From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: Keith Wright <kwright@keithdiane.us>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: manipulating continuations
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 18:16:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3k4h59nrv.fsf@unquote.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201102121640.p1CGe7PM003227@fcs13.keithdiane.us> (Keith Wright's message of "Sat, 12 Feb 2011 11:40:07 -0500")
On Sat 12 Feb 2011 17:40, Keith Wright <kwright@keithdiane.us> writes:
> What is (% ...)? What is a "partial continuation"?
% sets up a prompt.
http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/master/guile.html/Prompts.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delimited_continuation
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/scheme/pubs/pldi93-sitaram.pdf
> Has Guile gone off into left field, never to return?
Hardly, these control operators are nearly a quarter of a century old...
> Can we continue from R5RS or R6RS?
R5RS and R6RS's continuations are not generally useful for making
abstractions that compose well together. I would not recommend them to
anyone.
Regards,
Andy
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-12 14:10 manipulating continuations Thomas Girod
2011-02-12 15:43 ` Andy Wingo
2011-02-12 16:40 ` Keith Wright
2011-02-12 17:16 ` Andy Wingo [this message]
2011-02-12 20:56 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2011-02-12 21:33 ` Andy Wingo
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2011-02-17 11:08 ` Andy Wingo
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2011-02-12 8:35 Tomtom
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