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Re: The Browser Wars are Dead! Long Live the Browser

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• Subject: Re: The Browser Wars are Dead! Long Live the Browser
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 12:01:11 -0400 (EDT)

Forwarded by request:

> Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 15:59:18 +0000
> From: "Clark C. Evans" <cce@c...>
> To: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
> Cc: Sean McGrath <sean.mcgrath@p...>, xml-dev@l...
> Subject: Re:  The Browser Wars are Dead! Long Live the Browser
> 
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 10:30:44AM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> | 
> | Python, like Scheme, has continuations.  No other language in regular use
> | can make that statement.
> 
> As I recall:
>   - >
>     Python 2.2+ only has generators; for continuations you need
>     StacklessPython.  Guido looked at continuations, but they
>     seemed too much of a change, so he went with a lesser cousin
>     which provides 80% of the benefit with 20% of the implementation
>     effort.   Details of this can be found in the iterator sig.

Since Python generators are reified and available to the Python level,
they seem like continuations to me.

>   ->
>     From the ramblings on the Parrot list, Perl 6 will have 
>     full continuations.

Excellent!

> Anyway, you are welcome to forward this as I'm sure the XML-DEV
> list will once again reject my e-mail as it always does.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Clark
> 


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