On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 6:14 PM Nathan Marz <nathan.m...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Continuations in our language are expressed very differently than has > existed before (e.g. like in Scheme). They fit intuitively within the > overall paradigm our language implements. Far from being complex or hard to > comprehend, continuations are the key construct that enables us to avoid > mountains of complexity that exist otherwise in distributed systems. I know > this from personal experience building distributed systems in the past. The > degree to which continuations help write asynchronous, reactive, and > parallel code is huge. It would be clear if you saw the language in action, > but we're keeping it under wraps for now. > Could you expound on that for those of us who are familiar with continuations in many forms, and languages? While delimited, multi-prompt, multi-shot continuations are certainly helpful in reducing complexity compared to traditional full continuations, they still result in spaghetti code unless coupled with some sort of typing and/or algebraic effect system. Most research in this space shows some promise, so I’m interested in seeing how you’ve solved the many well documented problems with these approaches. -- “One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that–lacking zero–they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.” (Robert Firth) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/clojure/CAL36E%2Bv-a8P9wMEot2XspTk0GKiqk3EPCpTrqpK1FBesnFB9hg%40mail.gmail.com.
