On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 11:56:39 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Barb Knox wrote: > >> Instead of function A returning to its caller, the >> caller provides an additional argument (the "continuation") which is a >> function B to be called by A with A's result(s). > >That's just a callback. I've been doing that in C code (and other >similar-level languages) for years. Callbacks are a form of continuation. However, general continuations such as those in Scheme, carry with them their execution context. This allows them to used directly for things like user-space threading. George -- for email reply remove "/" from address -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
