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Re: Continuations


On Tuesday, August 12, 2003, at 11:32 AM, Michael Sperber wrote:
> Steve> The manual concurs with my description of the limitations of 
> mixing
> Steve> with C:
> Steve> http://www.s48.org/0.57/manual/s48manual_60.html
>
> Then I misunderstood you.  You wrote:
>
> Steve> So AFAICS, continuations only work if you don't call back into
> Steve> the VM from C.
>
> ... which is clearly not the case in Scheme 48.

It is the case. You can't start your VM, have it call C and C call back 
and then safely create a real continuation.

Cheers,
Steve
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