Multiple Returns, was Re: Common Lisp style macros in Smallta
lk?
Jarvis, Robert P. (Contingent)
Jarvisb at timken.com
Thu Jan 27 14:11:17 UTC 2000
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
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