Re: Continuations

[Michael Sperber <address@hidden>]

>>>>> "Steve" == Steve Dekorte <steve@dekorte.com> writes:

Steve> Are exceptions and coroutines sufficient to get those advantages?

No.

Steve> The problem I see with continuations is that they don't play nice with
Steve> C. If you exit a C stack, some heap allocations referenced by the
Steve> stack may be released and a second exit from a copy of the stack may
Steve> contain dangling pointers. So AFAICS, continuations only work if you
Steve> don't call back into the VM from C.

That's, as it stands, incorrect.  There are limitations, to be sure,
but not quite so severe.  The Scheme 48 C FFI, for example, shows how
to make this work for many instances.

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