Re: So, what the heck is a continuation anyway?

[Jeffrey Palm <address@hidden>]

Dan Sugalski wrote:

> At 10:11 AM 12/10/2001 -0500, Jeremy Hylton wrote:
> 
>> >>>>> "DS" == Dan Sugalski <dan@sidhe.org> writes:
>>
>>   DS> can I get a continuation object/marker from within A and pass it
>>   DS> to B, which then triggers it and returns to A even though I've
>>   DS> unwound the stack frames for A?
>>
>> Sure.
>>
>> You can invoke the continuation and return through A an arbitrary
>> number of times.
> 
> 
> Hmmm. That means I need to snapshot the stack frames and the 
> scratchpads. Doable.
> 
>                     Dan
> 
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But not the whole stack...

	http://www1.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/pldi/93542/p66-hieb/p66-hieb.pdf

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