Uri Guttman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>>>> "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> DS> We'll find out with A6 whether we do coroutines and continuations as
> DS> part of the core perl. If not, well, python does the first and ruby
> DS> the second, so it's all good in there.
>
> on the last perl cruise, i had a nice talk with larry about language
> level async i/o and continuations and related stuff. i don't know his
> final decisions but we worked on ideas that would support those features
> with similar API's and he seemed to like it. so i would bet that
> continuations and coroutines will be in perl6. but i wouldn't bet
> larry's life on it. :)
>
> so my take is to make the stacks support them.
Plus, languages like Ruby and scheme have continuations in them, and
we would like to see those languages hosted on Parrot at some point.
--
Piers
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a language in
possession of a rich syntax must be in need of a rewrite."
-- Jane Austen?
