Ah right, the closures would have to use a uniform calling style, no way
around that.
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 12:47 AM, john skaller <
skal...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
> On 20/11/2012, at 6:06 PM, Dobes Vandermeer wrote:
>
> > Did you ever look at the "Cheney on the MTA" approach to continuations?
> This is how Chicken Scheme does things, they seem relatively happy with it.
> >
> > http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/CheneyMTA.html
>
> "We propose solving the tail-recursion problem in the same manner as
> Standard ML of New Jersey, by allocating all frames in the
> (garbage-collected) heap"
>
> Which is what Felix already does for procedures.
> It's not clear Felix can implement the "stack becomes the allocation
> pointer" that
> is discussed in a portable way.
>
> >
> > It allows you to have full continuations in a fairly portable way, even
> for functions.
> >
> > One could imagine a system whereby functions are converted to "Cheney on
> the MTA" style if they use the continuation related features, and continue
> to be "normal" C/C++ functions if they don't.
>
> Felix already does that for direct calls.
>
> It cannot be done for calls through variables (closures) unless
> they're all treated the same (because the type determines the
> calling protocol).
>
> At least part of my previous emails discussed that issue: converting
> all functions to procedures.
>
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