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Reminds me of call/cc, which amuses me since that's the only (major) feature of Scheme I hadn't yet seen anyone calling for in Javascript (eg. there are plenty,
by chriswarbo 13y ago
Reminds me of call/cc, which amuses me since that's the only (major) feature of Scheme I hadn't yet seen anyone calling for in Javascript (eg. there are plenty, including me, who want tail-call optimisation; I've seen pre-compilers implementing hygenic macros, libraries implementing numeric towers, etc.).
- aaronem 13y agoI'd like to see TCO in Javascript, but before that I'd like to see some less headache-inducing method of dealing with lots of asynchrony. I'm not at all sure the method described in the linked article would work as well as said article makes it sound, but I'm definitely in favor of seeing people much smarter than I am argue this one to a finish and then implement the last proposal standing.
- lomnakkus 13y agocall/cc is too general. I find myself agreeing with Oleg[0] and think what's really required is delimited continuations. [0] http://okmij.org/ftp/continuations/against-callcc.html http://okmij.org/ftp/continuations/against-callcc.html