> I think common lisp's restart system and/or delimited continuations handle most of the "reasonable" uses of continuations without some of the less intuitive a

> I think common lisp's restart system and/or delimited continuations handle most of the "reasonable" uses of continuations without some of the less intuitive aspects of full continuations. As you may know, Oleg makes the same argument, that call/cc has a lot of problems, and, in practice, isn't really used anyway: http://okmij.org/ftp/continuations/against-callcc.html#illusion http://okmij.org/ftp/continuations/against-callcc.html#illus... . (EDIT: I see that sillysaurus (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14680711 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14680711) linked this same discussion a while ago.)