Re: Stacks, stacks, stacks (And frames)

2002-06-12 Thread Piers Cawley
Uri Guttman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > DS> We'll find out with A6 whether we do coroutines and continuations as > DS> part of the core perl. If not, well, python does the first and ruby > DS> the second, so it's all good in there

Re: Stacks, stacks, stacks (And frames)

2002-06-11 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 5:07 PM +0100 6/11/02, Dave Mitchell wrote: >On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 11:31:37AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: >> We'll find out with A6 whether we do coroutines and continuations as >> part of the core perl. If not, well, python does the first and ruby >> the second, so it's all good in there.

Re: Stacks, stacks, stacks (And frames)

2002-06-11 Thread Uri Guttman
> "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DS> We'll find out with A6 whether we do coroutines and continuations as DS> part of the core perl. If not, well, python does the first and ruby DS> the second, so it's all good in there. on the last perl cruise, i had a nice talk wit

Re: Stacks, stacks, stacks (And frames)

2002-06-11 Thread Melvin Smith
At 12:29 PM 6/11/2002 -0400, Melvin Smith wrote: You can think of continuations as an execution "context". This context >incudes everything, not just stack. It is a snapshot in time. You may think Let me rephrase. The context doesn't include "everything", rather everything that is local to that c

Re: Stacks, stacks, stacks (And frames)

2002-06-11 Thread Melvin Smith
At 05:07 PM 6/11/2002 +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote: >On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 11:31:37AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > We'll find out with A6 whether we do coroutines and continuations as > > part of the core perl. If not, well, python does the first and ruby > > the second, so it's all good in the

Re: Stacks, stacks, stacks (And frames)

2002-06-11 Thread Dave Mitchell
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 11:31:37AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > We'll find out with A6 whether we do coroutines and continuations as > part of the core perl. If not, well, python does the first and ruby > the second, so it's all good in there. Does anyone feel like giving a 1 paragraph potted

Re: Stacks, stacks, stacks (And frames)

2002-06-11 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 8:22 AM -0400 6/11/02, Bryan C. Warnock wrote: >On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 01:38, Dan Sugalski wrote: >> (A note--when this says "stack" I really mean all the stacks) >> >> Okay, I've been thinking about stacks and stack frames, and suchlike >> things. Well, calling them "stacks" is a bit of a mi

Re: Stacks, stacks, stacks (And frames)

2002-06-11 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 01:38, Dan Sugalski wrote: > (A note--when this says "stack" I really mean all the stacks) > > Okay, I've been thinking about stacks and stack frames, and suchlike > things. Well, calling them "stacks" is a bit of a misnomer, since > they're really trees, and that's partia