From: avi@...4.com (Avi Bryant)
Date: 2004-03-11T04:19:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Why there is no Continuation.new ?

gabriele renzi <surrender_it@remove.yahoo.it> wrote in message news:<0fit40laostu79fvclc0sp0vb0179q47m2@4ax.com>...

> Btw, I wonder what's wrong with a more rubyish way to use
> continuations.
> the sample from ri :
> 
>  arr = [ "Freddie", "Herbie", "Ron", "Max", "Ringo" ]
>  callcc{|$cc|}
>  puts(message = arr.shift)
>  $cc.call unless message =~ /Max/
> 
> To me this seem crying to become:
>  arr = [ "Freddie", "Herbie", "Ron", "Max", "Ringo" ]
>  cc= Continuation.new # optional &blk 
>  puts(message = arr.shift)
>  cc.call unless message =~ /Max/

For what it's worth, in Smalltalk I use the equivalent of 

cc = Continuation.current

and 

Continuation.current{|cc| ... }

Avi