Re: [Scheme-reports] 6.10 Control Structures

[Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@x>]

Andy Wingo writes:

> Including call/cc is understandable given the low penetration of
> delimited continuations among implementations, but it is still a
> real shame.  Delimited continuations are much, much, much better.  À
> la "Hewitt was right", Oleg was right.  Call/cc was cool but
> ultimately a wart, not something we should toot our horn about
> (i.e. "can be used to create all control structures" -- yes, but can
> you compose them?).

I'm hoping that delimited continuations get included as libraries in
the large R7RS.


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