(To be clear, I do not think continuations are a _bad_ idea; but they do
represent a unique set of challenges complications, as demonstrated e.g.
by dynamic-wind.)
On Wed, 6 Apr 2022, Elijah Stone wrote:
Suppose you want to look around in the caller's frame. You try
> 13!:19'', but it restarts immediately, calls problem again, and fails.
That seems like a valid use case. More generally, it seems like it would
be useful to poke around in _any_ stack frame, without destroying the ones
beneath (or on top of, depending on which way your stacks grow) it. But
that leads to forking stacks and continuations.
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