Libray quality reference board - lisp

Slobodan Blazeski wrote:
> On Nov 14, 1:15 pm, "Alex Mizrahi" <udode...@users.sourceforge.net>
> wrote:
>> SB>>> No problem I would do it for you. I just ask for a *little* favor.
>> SB>>> After learning scheme full blown continuations, I got attack on my
>> SB>>> lisp-have-them-all attitude, and refuse to code.
>> ??>>
>> ??>> you find arnesi ones not blown enough?
>>
>> SB> Arnesi (interpreted) and cl-cont (compiled ) offer only delimited
>> SB> continuations.
>>
>> and that's not enought for practical purposes?
>
> They will do, but good enough is not the same as great.

Delimited continuations are more general than undelimited ones. It's
easy to get undelimited ones with delimited continuations: You just wrap
your 'main' function in a delimiter (with-call/cc, or the equivalent).
The other way around is not so trivial.


Pascal

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