On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 04:30:07PM +0300, wolverian wrote:
: On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 04:17:56AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
: > We'll make continuations available in Perl for people who ask for
: > them specially, but we're not going to leave them sitting out in the
: > open where some poor benighted pilgrim might trip over them unawares.
:
: Sorry for replying so late, but I missed your reply somehow. I just want
: to ask a little clarification on this; exactly what kind of hiding are
: you considering for continuations? That is, do you just mean that there
: will not be a 'call/cc' primitive by default in the global namespace?
: I'm fine with that, as that's just one method of capturing the calling
: continuation.
I suspect it's just something like
use Continuations;
at the top to enable the low-level interface. There would be no
restriction on using continuation semantics provided by other modules,
because then the "use" of that other module implies whatever form
of continuation it provides.
My concern is primarily the reader of the code, who needs some kind
of warning that one can get sliced while juggling sharp knives. If
we were willing to be a little more Ada-like, we'd make it a shouted
warning:
use CONTINUATIONS;
Hmm, maybe that's not such a bad policy. I wonder what other "dangerous"
modules we might have. Ada had UNCHECKED_TYPE_CONVERSION, for instance.
Larry
