On Sat 12 Feb 2011 17:40, Keith Wright <kwri...@keithdiane.us> writes:
> What is (% ...)? What is a "partial continuation"? % sets up a prompt. http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/master/guile.html/Prompts.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delimited_continuation http://www.ccs.neu.edu/scheme/pubs/pldi93-sitaram.pdf > Has Guile gone off into left field, never to return? Hardly, these control operators are nearly a quarter of a century old... > Can we continue from R5RS or R6RS? R5RS and R6RS's continuations are not generally useful for making abstractions that compose well together. I would not recommend them to anyone. Regards, Andy -- http://wingolog.org/
