Panicz Maciej Godek <godek.mac...@gmail.com> writes: > I assume that the main reason for using this is efficiency (rather > than simplicity), because allegedly guile's continuations are rather > inefficient. Primarily, it's an efficiency hack, but you can also make a case that it better if you can tell at a glance that the continuation will never be stored, similar to how we have conventions for predicates and so forth.
> On one hand, it's good to know that (and would be even better > to be able to find it out by skimming section 6.13 of the manual), It is documented in section 13.5.1. > but on the other it would be nicer if the compiler could trace the > usages of continuations and figure out whether a given one is > ever being re-entered, and optimize accordingly. Well, it can sometimes, but it's a hard analysis in general. -- Ian Price -- shift-reset.com "Programming is like pinball. The reward for doing it well is the opportunity to do it again" - from "The Wizardy Compiled"
