[plt-scheme] Continuations

From: Grant Rettke (grettke at acm.org)
Date: Tue Nov 6 10:36:14 EST 2007

On Nov 6, 2007 9:01 AM, Joel J. Adamson <jadamson at partners.org> wrote:
> It cleared up a lot of confusion for me.  I'm less confused about what
> continuations are than when they will be useful to directly
> manipulate.  I understand the escape/abortive continuation way of
> catching exceptions, but can people list other situations?

Long running processes that are more easily defined (and maintained)
within a single procedure for which you may want to jump both into and
out of: web apps workflows or data processing tasks?


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