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Re: async 1.0


From: Michael Sperber
Subject: Re: async 1.0
Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2012 10:16:03 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) XEmacs/21.5-b31 (darwin)

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:

> John Wiegley writes:
>
>  > One thing that would make async.el _incredibly_ useful would be a `call/cc'
>  > function in Emacs.
>
> XEmacs efs (or maybe it's dired -- not to be confused with any dired
> in Emacs IIRC, you need the XEmacs versions) has an implementation of
> call/cc.  I don't know how close to "true" call/cc it is.  For correct
> info, ask Mike Sperber <address@hidden>.

It doesn't have call/cc, but large parts of it are effectively written
in CPS.  EFS also rolls its own version of closures.

-- 
Cheers =8-} Mike
Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla




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