Thomas F. Burdick <tfb@conquest.OCF.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
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| "Joe Marshall" <eval.apply@gmail.com> writes:
| > It is actually the opposite or `dual' of REST.  REST is all about
| > keeping your state together in one place so that you don't end up with
| > multiple inconsistent copies.  The `web continuation' approach is about
| > writing code that doesn't *have* state in the first place.
| 
| Continuations servers are definately the inverse of REST, but what Rob
| described was designing your app as though it used continuations, then
| CPS transforming the design, not the code.
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Yes, that's what I was trying to say, that (to me) the web continuation
approach is much more useful as a pattern[1] than as some fully-automatic
infrastructure or library.


-Rob

[1] In the RPG/Alexander sense, not the GoF sense.

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