On Jan 24, 2008 5:45 PM, Patrick R. Michaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 12:24:37PM +0100, Klaas-Jan Stol wrote:
> > as far as I could tell there's no support for goto statements in PCT
> (that
> > is, special nodes or something).
> > I don't know whether there are any plan
From: Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:52:16 -0800
In addition to what Patrick said, which is all right on the mark,
I'd like to point out a few additional subtleties.
Perl borrows an important idea from Lisp and separates the notion
of stack unwinding fr
In addition to what Patrick said, which is all right on the mark,
I'd like to point out a few additional subtleties.
Perl borrows an important idea from Lisp and separates the notion
of stack unwinding from that of exception handling; when you throw
an exception (including a control exception) you
On Jan 24, 2008 9:02 AM, Patrick R. Michaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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?
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,
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 h
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 12:24:37PM +0100, Klaas-Jan Stol wrote:
> as far as I could tell there's no support for goto statements in PCT (that
> is, special nodes or something).
> I don't know whether there are any plans to add special support for it, but
> here's an idea I was thinking about. It wou
hi,
as far as I could tell there's no support for goto statements in PCT (that
is, special nodes or something).
I don't know whether there are any plans to add special support for it, but
here's an idea I was thinking about. It would be rather helpful, instead of
having this handle by each languag
