Continuations - full, or delimited?

Jay McCarthy jay.mccarthy at gmail.com
Tue Oct 25 10:08:20 PDT 2005


IMHO, delimited continuations are very important as they are difficult
to add back later and they encourage efficient implementation of full
continuations. I don't plan on writing any code but that's my cents.

Jay

On 10/25/05, Tony Garnock-Jones <tonyg at lshift.net> wrote:
> Delimited continuations are *interesting*, but full continuations are
> *easier to understand* (for me, anyway). Does anyone else have an opinion?
>
> If I'm going to kluge together something with an event loop, in the
> absence of nicely-integrated Slate microthreads, I'm thinking delimited
> continuations might be a good fit.
>
> Tony
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