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

[John O'Keefe]

Phillipe -

Well, VA Smalltalk currently doesn't support Continuations, but I am
working feverishly on changing that situation :-)

John

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Philippe Marschall
<philippe.marschall at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi John
>
> So VA will/does support continuations? This is great news because the
> impression we got from earlier statements was that Seaside on VA will
> be continuation-less.
>
> Cheers
> Philippe
>
> 2008/2/28, John O'Keefe <wembley.instantiations at gmail.com>:
>
> > Lukas -
> >
> >  In my opinion, Continuations do form a fundamental part of Seaside,
> >  but the implementation of Continuations is vendor-specific. Dolphin,
> >  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.
> >
> >  John
> >
> >  On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 2:17 AM, Lukas Renggli <renggli at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >  [snipped]
> >
> >
> >  > It is probably a bit early now, but would it make sense to move all
> >  > the continuation based stuff into a separate package? Something like
> >  > Seaside-Flow-Core/Seaside-Flow-Tests? Like this, Smalltalk vendors
> >  > without a first-class execution-stack don't need to load that part of
> >  > Seaside. Of course, not loading Seaside-Flow, will result in a big
> >  > loss of features.
> >  >
> >  > Lukas
> >  >
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