[racket] Serializable continuations

If you write in

#lang web-server/base

then you will get serialization continuations, but none of the Web
libraries. The transformation isn't really Web-specific.

Jay

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Rodolfo Carvalho <rhcarvalho at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I am writing a small experiment in which I want to persist a continuation in
> an SQLite database.
> It wasn't possible to 'insert' the continuation directly, so I tried using
> "serialize" (from racket/serialize) but it turned out that continuations are
> not serializable.
>
> My program is not a webapp, but, since the webserver has a
> "call-with-serializable-current-continuation", I thought there could be a
> way to serialize a continuation.
> Any advice? Is it something feasible to do?
>
>
> My code is available at https://gist.github.com/2893350
> (In this simple example, I sure could store the internal state of the
> counter explicitly instead of the continuation, however that misses the
> point)
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rodolfo Carvalho
>
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