On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 08:57:28AM +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
: What's the usage of Continuations from HLLs point of view? Can we get
: some hints, what is intended?
>From the standpoint of Perl 6, I hope to hide continuations far, far
away in a galaxy long ago. No wait, wrong movie...
We can certainly make it the default that a routine is not going to
do anything fancy with continuations unless it is explicitly declared
to allow it. As to what that declaration should be, I have no idea.
Probably just a trait that says, "is continuationalizableish" or
some such.
: I'd like to have, if possible a clear indication: that's a plain
: function or method call and this is not. I think the possible speedup is
: worth the effort.
I have no problem with "plain" being the default. I suppose you could
declare it explicitly if you like:
sub foo () is plain {...}
Then obviously the other kind would be:
sub bar () is peanut {...}
Hmm, actually, "smooth" and "nutty" might be more accurate.
Larry
