[Seaside] continuations and other mythical seaside things.

Avi Bryant seaside@lists.squeakfoundation.org
Sun, 1 Dec 2002 11:08:35 -0800 (PST)


On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Derek Brans wrote:

> I am working on bringing the calendar application up to Seaside
> standards and I have some questions.
>
> Could you explain how continuations work?
> I understand that they store the state of execution of program control
> at a particular point in the program's execution, but how is this
> achieved?

Simply by copying the current stack.  In Squeak this is extremely easy,
since it's just a linked list of MethodContext objects.