[plt-scheme] Fun with Unicode and delimited continuations

From: Matthias Felleisen (matthias at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 3 10:03:59 EDT 2010

On Jun 3, 2010, at 9:58 AM, Doug Orleans wrote:

> I think it's similar to using continuations in the web server, to avoid having to break up the flow of a procedure that needs to get information from the user.

Not really. If you're writing programs not poetry (I do appreciate both!), you want continuation operators when you grab control at unpredictable points (e.g., timer events) or when you compose functions and the continuation is difficult or impossible to compute (e.g., if you used +/- many times). 

-- Matthias




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