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Continuations Made Simple and Illustrated
- Shamiq 17y agoNote to the reader: Illustrated does not mean pictorially.
- fadmmatt 17y agoThis is a great article. Continuations are rarely understood, which is unfortunate, given their power. I wrote an article for my compilers class that gives examples of how to use continuations (in Scheme): http://matt.might.net/articles/programming-with-continuations--exceptions-backtracking-search-threads-generators-coroutines/ http://matt.might.net/articles/programming-with-continuation... It covers basic stuff like exceptions and back-tracking search, and more advanced topics like threads, generators and coroutines.
- camccann 17y agoOn the other hand, see here for continuations made complicated: http://okmij.org/ftp/Computation/Continuations.html http://okmij.org/ftp/Computation/Continuations.html
- tjarratt 17y agoI'd say this is more continuations in practical applications than purely complicated.
- raffi 17y agoI wrote an article awhile back on continuations in Sleep: http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2008/07/24/fun-with-continuations.html http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2008/07/24/fun-with-contin... I don't find a need for them in AtD (my current project), but when I was doing distributed systems work they were very valuable to me.