[plt-scheme] Re: More document (newbie)

From: Robby Findler (robby at cs.uchicago.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 22 09:35:36 EDT 2008

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Michael Schuerig <michael at schuerig.de> wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 October 2008, George Herson wrote:
>> How would you explain the parameterize command, at least as used in
>> http://docs.plt-scheme.org/more/?
>
> It looks a lot like what is called thread-local storage in other
> systems, extended to continuations. I may be wrong, I only skimmed the
> docs.

That is what it is, yes.

If you want a precise explanation (for people who understand such
words as the above), see:

  http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~robby/pubs/papers/icfp2007-fyff.pdf

Robby


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