OK, I'll exhibit my ignorance :-).  What are continuations, and what are
they useful for?  Same questions for coroutines.

Bob Jarvis
Compuware @ Timken

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Vassili Bykov [SMTP:vassili at objectpeople.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, January 27, 2000 8:19 AM
> To:	squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject:	RE: Multiple Returns, was Re: Common Lisp style macros in
> Smalltalk?
> 
> > From: demiourgos at smalltalk.org [mailto:demiourgos at smalltalk.org]
> > But I have wondered from time to time -- not having deep process-based
> > experience in Smalltalk (applications instead) -- how one might go about
> > implementing coroutines or continuations in the manner of Scheme.  Or
> > are these things too far out of the Smalltalk model?
> 
> I implemented continuations for Squeak a couple of year ago.  Nobody
> seemed
> particularly impressed, so even if they are not far out of the Smalltalk
> implementation, they are far out of the Smalltalk thinking.
> 
> --Vassili