Re: What is a lightweight language

[Dan Sugalski <address@hidden>]

At 12:01 PM 12/11/2001 -0500, Dorai Sitaram wrote:
>The one thing I don't like about call/cc is the
>sneaking suspicion that there may be a
>pay-even-if-you-don't-use-it cost associated with
>it.

There's a cost--there's always a cost to everything. (Reality's really 
annoying at times) If you're already paying part of it (say, capturing 
lexical environments for closures) then the cost might be already paid, and 
you might only have to pay in maintenance/development costs on the 
compiler/interpreter/VM/whatever.

					Dan

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