[plt-scheme] Re: why no send/suspend in tutorial? (was: Re: web-server question)

From: Shriram Krishnamurthi (sk at cs.brown.edu)
Date: Tue Dec 9 01:02:02 EST 2008

I agree.  This is worth describing more explicitly in documentation
with actual examples, because John's assumption is absolutely the
natural one to make.

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:52 AM, John Clements
<clements at brinckerhoff.org> wrote:
>
> On Dec 8, 2008, at 8:54 PM, Jay McCarthy wrote:
>
>> Everything you can do with s/s you can do with s/s/d (and vice versa),
>> because send/suspend/dispatch returns the result of the request
>> handler to its continuation.
>
> Ah, I see. The idiomatic use is so close to the CPSed style required by most
> web apps that I assumed that it didn't return to the existing continuation.
> Thanks!
>
> John
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