[racket] Resources for understanding Racket’s language model?

Dear all, I have some difficulties understanding “1 Language Model” of the Racket Reference. I want some detailed explanations on some concepts like “Prompts, Delimited Continuations, and Barriers” etc. Do you have any recommended resources like papers or books for me to start with? Thanks,

Re: [racket] Resources for understanding Racket’s language model?

In general, papers here: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/racket/pubs/ and also http://www.cs.utah.edu/~mflatt/publications/index.html and http://www.eecs.northwestern.edu/~robby/pubs/ cover what's in Racket. For delimited continuations, the relevant paper is: http://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/delim-cont/ Sam On

Re: [racket] Resources for understanding Racket’s language model?

Ben, on the first site you can find my papers dating back to the time when I discovered prompt and functional continuations. The papers -- especially those with Dorai's name on them -- contain some examples on how to use them and what for but they mostly focus on 'design theory'. If you are i

Re: [racket] Resources for understanding Racket’s language model?

Thank you for your replies. I’m not currently implementing a language. But I’m very interested in how Racket works and why it is designed like this. So I want to read more about it. Ben On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 10:41 PM, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > > Ben, on the first site you can find my pap