[Seaside] Continuations - their future?

[stephane ducasse]

thanks.
This was just my curiosity.
I like seaside the way it is :)

Stef

On 11 déc. 07, at 18:55, Lukas Renggli wrote:

>> is it the goal to make the code of seaside tail-recursive (CPS) (just
>> the call:answer:)?
>
> This is already possible. Instead of #call: you use #show:onAnswer:,
> where the first argument is the same and the second argument is the
> rest of the computation (a block). Doing it manually leads to
> extremely ugly code, doing it automatically would hide this code but
> it is not easily possible in a platform independent way.
>
> There are a few other internal places where Seaside uses
> continuations. We could get rid of those, but it would require some
> major changes in the internal architecture of Seaside.
>
> Lukas
>
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