On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 01:38, Dan Sugalski wrote: > (A note--when this says "stack" I really mean all the stacks) > > Okay, I've been thinking about stacks and stack frames, and suchlike > things. Well, calling them "stacks" is a bit of a misnomer, since > they're really trees, and that's partially where things get nasty. > Looking at them as trees does make some things clearer. > > First, the assumptions: > > 1) Most parrot code will be machine generated > 2) We may have continuations taken and called most any time
May? That hardly makes that an assumption. :-) > 3) Subs we call might really be coroutines > 4) We want to be fast Is there (as I don't know) anything else in Perl (Parrot?) that is implemented in terms of coroutines or continuations? Or is the only functional programming support being provided strictly at the language level? -- Bryan C. Warnock bwarnock@(gtemail.net|capita.com)
