Subject: Re: The fundamental concept of continuations
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:59:53 -0500
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <tbWdnToQz44ktoXanZ2dnUVZ_oninZ2d@speakeasy.net>
Jed Davis  <jdev@panix.com> wrote:
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| rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock) writes:
| > In a nutshell: The thing that's different about full/real/Schemish
| > continuations is that you can call them more than once. But note
| > that only the *control* path is repeated; any globals that you
| > SETF'd [such as the yello sticky] *aren't* reset when you call the
| > continuation a 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc., time...
| 
| Local bindings that have been SETF'd are also not reset, though of
| course they're subject to scope as usual.
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Yes, of course. You caught me oversimplifying for tutorial purposes...


-Rob

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