Re: Demystifying Continuations

[Guy Steele - Sun Microsystems Labs <address@hidden>]

   From: Ken Dickey <kend0@earthlink.net>
   To: "David Simmons" <David.Simmons@smallscript.net>, <ll1-discuss@ai.mit.edu>
   Subject: Re: Demystifying Continuations
   Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 08:33:37 -0800
   
   On Friday 22 March 2002 02:14 am, David Simmons wrote:
   ...
   > Can I call an arbitrary continuation (not in my call-chain set)?
   
   In the implementations I am familiar with, the answer is NO.  One throws an 
   exception.  [That is what I meant by "obvious stack semantics" in the 
   previous missive].

The continuation that obeys only obvious stack semantics,
O grasshopper, is not the true continuation.  :-)

--Guy Steele