[Seaside-dev] Seaside-Core-lr.62

[Martin Kobetic]

I like the idea of only employing continuations when needed as well. Debugging with continuations is a bit of a wild ride, so avoiding them when not necessary seems like a good move to me.

FWIW

Martin

Lukas Renggli wrote:
>>  In my opinion, Continuations do form a fundamental part of Seaside,
>>  but the implementation of Continuations is vendor-specific.
> 
> Continuations bring a lot of power to Seaside, however they are not
> needed (anymore) to make Seaside useful. I know many Seaside
> applications that don't use (or only sparingly) Continuations.
> 
>>  VA Smalltalk (and probably others) implementation internals are quite
>>  different from Squeak/VW's but we still maintain the Continuation API
>>  externally.  So I think moving Continuations into Seaside-Squeak-Core
>>  would make a lot of sense (especially since I've already place my
>>  Continuations in Seaside-VAST-Core).  I suppose this also means
>>  moviing the Continuation Tests into Seaside-Squeak-Tests to maintain
>>  parallelism.
> 
> It is not that we drop Continuations, just that we would like to make
> them optional. If you want to be able to define control-flow nicely,
> there is no way around it.
> 
> Lukas
>