From: Jim Weirich <jweirich@...>
Date: 2002-11-10T07:25:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Random idea: Procedural CGI??

On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 17:20, Jim Weirich wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 09:29, Austin Ziegler wrote:
> 
> > Borges is Seaside v2; Seaside is the Squeak version of Iowa.
> 
> The functionality that Avi was demonstrating at the Ruby conference
> (partially) depended upon continuations.  Does Squeak have
> continuations, or is it done in a different manner in the Squeak
> version?

Nevermind ... I answered my own questions.  From the design
documentation at http://beta4.com/seaside2/borges.html, 

  Seaside handles this transparently by leveraging first class 
  continuations, a powerful language construct most commonly 
  associated with the Scheme language [...]

I hadn't realized Squeak supported continuations.  Cool!

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