From: Gennady <gfb@...>
Date: 2003-12-20T08:59:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Could I have an example of using Continuations as 'co-routines'?


On Dec 19, 2003, at 15:21, Asfand Yar Qazi wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've been hanging around on the irc channel recently, getting advice  
> to reimplement my incomplete C++ game engine in Ruby (I've redone  
> about 2 weeks work in 2 days!)
>
> Here's my problem: instead of using setjmp/longjmp to script my game's  
> story-line (scripting in C++, tut-tut, what was I thinking?!), I  
> obviously want to use a Ruby feature, and I assume Continuations are  
> the thing to do it.
>
> But I don't understand how!  My mind is just going upside-down  
> (perhaps I need to give coding a break for a day or two...)
>
> Anyway, could I have a simple example to start with?
>

I hope this will help:
http://www.eleves.ens.fr/home/madore/computers/callcc.html

Also the Pickaxe has some basic examples (you may have seen them  
already, though):
http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/html/ 
ref_c_continuation.html

Sincerely,
Gennady Bystritsky