On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 11:58:02AM -0500, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> Sorry if I'm missing something here, since I haven't dived into the
> innards of Parrot, but I thought control flow in Parrot was based on
> continuations? Presumably 'control exceptions' are really just
> lexicaly-scoped exceptions, and exceptions are in turn just
> outgoing-only continuations. If you have first-class continuations,
> goto should be pretty straightforward to implement...
You're probably correct about this... as I mentioned, I just hadn't
thought about it too heavily yet. At the moment, 'goto' is waaaaay
down on the list of things I've been thinking about ('return', 'next',
'last', etc. are much higher).
Pm
