whorf wrote:
Parrot moves beyond the fragile stack-based control flow common to
virtual machines today, to a continuation-based control flow. (I can
recommend a few good books and articles if you're curious.)
Could you recommend the books and articles for the curious.
I've had quite a few requests for this. Here's a good start:
- "Continuations and advanced flow control" by Jonathan Bartlett,
<http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-advflow.html>
- "Compiling with Continuations" by Andrew W. Appel, Cambridge
University Press
- "A Dynamic Continuation-Passing Style for Dynamic Delimited
Continuations" by Dariusz Biernacki, Olivier Danvy, Kevin Millikin,
<http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1966>
- "Representing Control, A Study of the CPS Transformation Mathematical
Structures" by Olivier Danvy and Andrzej Filinski, Computer Science
2(4):361-391
- "A Correspondence between Continuation Passing Style and Static Single
Assignment Form" by Richard A. Kelsey, ACM SIGPLAN Notices 30 (3): 13-22.
- "The Scheme Programming Language" 3rd ed. by Kent Dybvig (chapter 3,
particularly section 3.4), The MIT Press. Also
<http://www.scheme.com/tspl3/further.html#./further:h4>
Allison
