Re: continuations (was Re: error() or nil, 'error msg')

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Subject: Re: continuations (was Re: error() or nil, 'error msg')
From: Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@...>
Date: 2014年9月26日 16:27:15 -0500

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 10:07 PM, Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@trms.com> wrote:

On Wednesday, September 24, 2014, Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
> Yes, yield is a specific case, just as exceptions are a specific case
> and setjmp/longjmp is a specific case. We'd have to go to something
> like Scheme to get generalized continuations.

Or to Lua with gotos to outside a function ;-)

-- Roberto

I'm possibly exposing my shallow grasp of continuations, but it seems like much of the debug library could be done with this facility.

-Andrew

References:
- error() or nil, 'error msg', Andrew Starks
- Re: error() or nil, 'error msg', Tom N Harris
- Re: error() or nil, 'error msg', Sean Conner
- continuations (was Re: error() or nil, 'error msg'), Tom N Harris
- Re: continuations (was Re: error() or nil, 'error msg'), Sean Conner
- Re: continuations (was Re: error() or nil, 'error msg'), Coda Highland
- Re: continuations (was Re: error() or nil, 'error msg'), Javier Guerra Giraldez
- Re: continuations (was Re: error() or nil, 'error msg'), Coda Highland
- Re: continuations (was Re: error() or nil, 'error msg'), Roberto Ierusalimschy
- Re: continuations (was Re: error() or nil, 'error msg'), Andrew Starks

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