From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2004-01-30T21:04:53+09:00
Subject: Re: fallbacks using contiuations

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 15:04:17 +0900, Jim Weirich wrote:

> 
> Joel VanderWerf said:
>>
>> Here is an amusing little control structure that shows off ruby's
>> continuations and is actually useful (of course, you might want to use
>> something other than a global variable--that's just for simplicity):
> 
> Stuff like this is so cool ...
[snip]
> I suppose I should post the code for Amb.  Here it is ...
[snip]

Nice nicE!  

I am working on a regexp engine which uses same kind of logic,
but without using continuations. Instead I use a stack for backtracking.

Amb is a nice implementation/inspiration for improvement.

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Simon Strandgaard