[Seaside] continuations resources
Ramon Leon
ramon.leon at allresnet.com
Tue Oct 10 18:31:19 UTC 2006
> Continuations are more general however, and are capable of
> being called many times. It's like going back in time,
> somewhere earlier in the code, you were in a context where
> you said... Hmm, I want to be able to come back here and
> start over, so save this context as the current continuation.
> Later, you find yourself in a situation where you want to
> bail out and start over again at that spot, so you invoke the
> current continuation and do exactly that, time travel back to
> that point, and continue from wherever it was, even if that
> spot was in the middle of a method somewhere. The
> continuation starts right at the point in the stack where it
> left off. Think of it as calling a no arg method that was
> created on the fly at any point of your choosing, even mid
> execution, at any time in the past.
Quite literally, a continuation is a GOTO.
Ramon Leon
http://onsmalltalk.com
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