On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 11:36:02AM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote: : wolverian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : : > On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 12:18:45PM -0400, MrJoltCola wrote: : >> I cannot say how much Perl6 will expose to the high level language. : > : > That is what I'm wondering about. I'm sorry I was so unclear. : > : >> Can you tell me what your idea of a "scope" is? I'm thinking a : >> continuation, and if that is what you are thinking, I'm thinking the : >> answer to your question is yes. : > : > Yes. I want to know how Perl 6 exposes continuations, and how to get one : > for, say, the current lexical scope, and if it has a method on it that : > lets me evaluate code in that context (or some other way to do that). : : As I understand what Larry's said before. Out of the box, it : doesn't. Apparently we're going to have to descend to Parrot to write : evalcc/letcc/your-preferred-continuation-idiom equivalent.
We'll make continuations available in Perl for people who ask for them specially, but we're not going to leave them sitting out in the open where some poor benighted pilgrim might trip over them unawares. Larry
