Block Closures are here!

Avi Bryant avi at beta4.com
Thu Jan 24 19:43:25 UTC 2002


Tim Rowledge wrote:

> In the meantime, anybody that has the time and interest should most
> definitely bang on the code and do their utmost to break it in ways that
> teach us how to improve it, make it as utterly wonderful as possible and
> generally help Anthony.

> Anybody tried out coroutining with it yet? A block return from one
> Process to another? Fifty-deep nesting? Mutual recursion?

Coroutining is broken - #swapSender has a note to that effect and signals
an error.  Much as I'd love to have block closures, that makes it pretty
useless for me... (if I ever have time I'll try to implement
swapSender and call/cc on it myself but it ain't gonna be any time soon).




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