Perhaps we should just explain continuations in terms of time travel.
Most people think they understand time travel, even when they don't.
A continuation is just a funny label for a point in time, and you have
a way of sending messages from the future back to that point in time.
Hrm...here's
On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yep. But serializing continuations is either tough, or not
completely doable, since programs tend to have handles on things
outside their direct control like filehandles, sockets, database
connections, and suchlike things. Resuming a continuation
On Mon, 8 Jul 2002 16:54:16 -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
while ($foo) {
$foo--;
}
Pretty simple. (For illustrative purposes) To do that with
continuations, it'd look like:
$cont = take_continuation();
if ($foo) {
$foo--;
invoke($cont);
}
When
On Tue, 9 Jul 2002 16:42:03 +0100, Peter Haworth wrote:
When you invoke a continuation you put the call scratchpads and lexical
scratchpads back to the state they were when you took the continuation.
If you restore the lexicals, how does this ever finish?
Never mind. It's the *access* to
