From: Nikolai Weibull <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2004-10-21T17:57:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Python vs. Ruby (Re: A concise description of Ruby?)

* Florian Gross <flgr@ccan.de> [Oct 21, 2004 10:27]:
> > >- callcc is the devil
> >
> > Yes, certainly, and look how easy it is to simulate in Python:
> >
> > http://www.ps.uni-sb.de/~duchier/python/continuations.html

> But note that this is just a way of emulating them. This won't give you
> the power you have with built-in continuations.

> I'm not sure if you're really implying here that Continuations are evil,
> but they can certainly be useful in more esoteric contexts. (Note that
> Continuations allowed me to implement Binding.of_caller in pure Ruby
> with a quite reasonable interface.)

No, I'm not implying that continuations are evil, I think they are a
great way to model many things.
	nikolai

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