Re: delimited continuations for web development

2008-12-04 Thread Michael Reid
> with a delimited continuation, you're capturing it from the outside, so you > don't have that problem. > Yeah I'm pretty sure its possible. I've been intrigued by this continuations based web programming trend as well. Early on when I learned of Clojure I made a very poor attempt to port cl-cont

Re: delimited continuations for web development

2008-12-04 Thread Rich Hickey
On Dec 2, 12:52 pm, Jan Rychter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rich Hickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Jun 20, 11:58 am, Jaime Barciela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hello Phil, > > >> My understanding is that Common Lisp doesn't have support for > >> continuations either and that's why W

Re: delimited continuations for web development

2008-12-03 Thread harrison clarke
the hard part about implementing continuations in a language that doesn't already support them is that you're trying to capture it from within. with a delimited continuation, you're capturing it from the outside, so you don't have that problem. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~

Re: delimited continuations for web development

2008-12-03 Thread Monsieur Pinocchio
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 12:52 PM "Jan Rychter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Rich Hickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Jun 20, 11:58 am, Jaime Barciela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hello Phil, > >> > >> My understanding is that Common Lisp doesn't have support for > >> continuations either

Re: delimited continuations for web development

2008-12-02 Thread Jan Rychter
Rich Hickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Jun 20, 11:58 am, Jaime Barciela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello Phil, >> >> My understanding is that Common Lisp doesn't have support for >> continuations either and that's why Weblocks uses cl-cont (http:// >> common-lisp.net/project/cl-cont/, a l