I've been doing some thinking, and I've halfway convinced myself of the following statement: that threads as implemented by Python (or Java) are exactly equivalent to one-shot continuations in Scheme. Am I right? (I'd have asked in the scheme groups, but I feel like I'm less likely to get flamed to death here... hehe.)
If that's the case, it seems threads plus hygeinic macros and a few primitives a la Scheme would form a solid basis upon which to build a programming language. The only thing preventing Python from being that language is the difficulty of integrating a macro system, n'est- ce pas? Thanks! Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
