From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-08-03T01:02:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Home grown continuations

Hi,

In message "Home grown continuations"
    on 03/08/03, "Nathaniel Talbott" <nathaniel@NOSPAMtalbott.ws> writes:

|I was thinking about closures, continuations, etc., and I suddenly had this
|thought that I might be able to "roll my own" continuations using closures.
|It doesn't seem to work, though. Can anyone tell me why?

Since 1.8, return within the closures created by proc or lambda, just
terminates the closure execution.  If you create a closure by
Proc.new, it causes error, since call frame information is already
lost unlike callcc.

							matz.