[plt-scheme] Re: 352.7

From: Joe Marshall (jmarshall at alum.mit.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 18 17:48:01 EDT 2006

So have we achieved closure on this subject?

On 10/18/06, Dave Herman <dherman at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> Can we keep the puns under control? Please, everybody, don't F 'n prompt
> the punsters. No exceptions -- I can't handle them!
>
> Dave
>
> Matthew Flatt wrote:
> > At Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:45:10 -0700, "Joe Marshall" wrote:
> >
> >>On 10/16/06, David Van Horn <dvanhorn at cs.brandeis.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >>>Matthew Flatt wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>Delimited continuations
> >>>
> >>>I'd be interested to know what prompted the shift to all this delimited
> >>>control.
> >>
> >>It's simply a continuation of current research.  It may eventually
> >>have some value.
> >
> >
> > Or even spawn new research. And we'll be, er, cupto more things. (It's
> > difficult to reply in this thread!)
> >
> > But delimited control captured my attention at this particular time
> > because there were three requests: one request for prompts to support
> > continuations in DrScheme's interaction window (it's much cleaner with
> > a prompt), one request for prompts to support Chongkai's embedding
> > application (similar to the DrScheme use, though more severe, since C
> > code is involved), and one request for delimited continuations to be
> > used in the web server.
> >
> > Matthew
> >
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~jrm


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