Thanks!!! I had visited the conf. site a few weeks ago, but never found a link to Marshall's paper (I don't know whether I was looking too early or just simply missed it...)
At any rate, I found it very interesting/helpful. I think his PROS and CONS (especially CONS 7) clarifies the reporter's labeling of this talk under the heading of "The Right Thing"... -jn- j m wrote: > > http://ll1.mit.edu/marshall.html > > >From: Joel Neely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: [REBOL] Re: MIT article on rebol and other languages > >Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 06:28:02 -0600 > > > >Hi, Ladislav, > > > >Ladislav Mecir wrote: > > > > > > The continuations are like the tail recursion, they were > > > present in 1.x version, but they aren't there now. > > > > > > >Do you (or anyone else) have any information on how tail > >recursion was handled in 1.x? I'd be really interested > >in anything available... > > > > > > > > As opposed to the tail recursion, nobody > > > seems to be missing them... > > > > > > >With all due respect to present company, perhaps it's due > >to the fact that continuations are not that well known. > >TRY covers some of the common uses, but there are still > >interesting applications (I think of things like Rugby...) > > > >Again, just for my own edification, I'd really appreciate > >anything anyone has on how that was done/appeared in 1.x. > > > >-jn- > > > >-- > >; sub REBOL {}; sub head ($) {@_[0]} > >REBOL [] > ># despam: func [e] [replace replace/all e ":" "." "#" "@"] > >; sub despam {my ($e) = @_; $e =~ tr/:#/.@/; return "\n$e"} > >print head reverse despam "moc:xedef#yleen:leoj" ; > >-- > >To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the > >subject, without the quotes. > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the > subject, without the quotes. -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.
