On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 09:29:34AM -0500, Prabhakar Ragde wrote:
> Matthias wrote:
>
> >>The documentation (See Guide s10.3) says "A continuation is a value
> >>that encapsulates a piece of an expression context"
> >
> >Someone should submit a doc bug report to the Guile people. The
> >'expression' should be replaced (or supplemented) with 'evaluation'.
>
> Not "Guile", "Guide". This is in the Racket Guide, first sentence of
> 10.3 (Continuations). The same phrase ("expression context") appears
> in the Racket Reference, 1.1.1 (Evaluation Model / Sub-expression
> Evaluation and Continuations). "Evaluation context" definitely
> resonates more with those who understand the formal semantics, but I
> am not sure it makes much difference to someone trying to learn from
> the more informal Guide, which is vague about the evaluation model.
> --PR
Maybe the word should just be 'evaluation', without mentioning a 'context'.
..encapsulates a piece of evaluation.
-- hendrik
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