[plt-scheme] oops regarding continuation comparison!

From: John Clements (clements at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Fri Jul 18 16:46:36 EDT 2003

On Friday, Jul 18, 2003, at 14:28 US/Eastern, Felix Klock's PLT scheme 
proxy wrote:

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> Hopefully I can cut you off at the pass; looking over the 
> documentation again, I see that there *is* a CONTINUATION-MARKS 
> procedure already provided, so I have my mapping from K to its marks!
>
> On a tangent note: why does the manual call it a "set of continuation 
> marks" ?  Isn't order significant in the data structure, and thus the 
> word "sequence" would be more appropriate than set?  Of course, now 
> continuation-set is part of the described interface, which is 
> unfortunate.  But maybe that could be changed...

The 'set' includes many sequences.  Each key used to attach marks may 
be used to retrieve a sequence from the set.  Hence, 
'continuation-mark-set->list'.

john



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