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

[Dan Sugalski <address@hidden>]

At 05:06 PM 12/10/2001 -0600, Paul Prescod wrote:
>Dan Sugalski wrote:
> >
> >....
> >
> > I see. Well, that clinches it, then--Parrot gets continuations. Thanks.
>
>When I last saw Damian Conway he kept saying that feature X and feature
>Y would be in Perl 6. I asked him to name one thing he didn't think
>would be in Perl 6. He thought for a second and the only one he could
>come up with was...continuations. Now Perl 6's design is complete.

Nope. Just because the engine supports continuations doesn't mean perl 
will. Parrot supports multiple nested obscuring levels of globals, but perl 
doesn't support that, either. ;)

					Dan

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