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Alex Queiroz <asandroq@gmail.com> writes:
> Hallo,
>
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 7:32 AM, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
>>
>> Scheme tries to be incomprehensible by mapping everything and its dog
>> through the concept of continuations, a barely structured approach.
>>
>
> This is beyond wrong, it's FUD. One can be completely unaware of
> the concept of continuations and use 95% of the language described in
> R5RS.
Sure, but if you want coroutines or other non-local control structures,
you mostly have to revert to continuations rather than less powerful
constructs.
-- 
David Kastrup

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