At 12:58 PM 5/8/2001 -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
>Simon Cozens writes:
>: On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 03:00:51PM -0400, John Porter wrote:
>: > Bit of a digression; but, the dynamicity of a language is in
>: > no way implicated by the number of methods in one build-in
>: > class. (Besides, this class will have at least three.)
>:
>: Ooh, at least three. Again, why special-case a class that's inextensible?
>
>It's not clear that it isn't. We're not so far off of a yield-like
>method on continuations here, except that yield statements typically
>assume the current sub as the continuation object. Perhaps Perl 6
>will have ordinary blocks that can function as continuations to the
>surrounding list context. It's a long shot, but ya never know, ya know.
Why, want them? I certainly do... (They smell like lazy subs and/or
iterators to me, and I rather like those :)
Dan
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