Hi Ralf, Ralf Hemmecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Ralf Hemmecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Could you demonstrate some SPAD-code-to-be which uses continuations > >> and solves a problem that cannot be solved easily by an Aldor > >> equivalent? > > I am not to sure what you want me to give. Writing a lot of pseudo > > code is not terribly useful in all cases. > > No not pseudo code. Define a syntax for continuations in > SPAD-to-be. And then write real SPAD-to-be code. Well, for that you might need to wait a while :) I understand the motivation for asking, but it is not really practical at this point. [...] > I am looking for something that would cause me headaches to implement > in (current) Aldor and which would be easy with continuations. Is must > be related to implementing mathematics. I don't yet see how useful > continuations are in a mathematical library context. > > You mentioned parallel execution, but there is also > http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/mannhart/piit/ > http://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/~bj/paraldor/WWW/ Perhaps the following paper would be worth looking at: www.csd.uwo.ca/~watt/pub/reprints/1995-issac-dynev.pdf Which gives some of the basic ideas behind continuations, how they can be implemented and incorporated into Aldor, and gives examples of the kinds of (non-trivial) algorithms for which continuations are a natural fit. I am not really advocating anything new by adopting the notion of continuations in SPAD. Take care, Steve _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
