yes, continuation. That was the term.
I remember a perl monger meeting years ago
where someone was doing a presentation about
having continuations in perl6. But that wasn't rakudo.

Anyway, they'd be on my xmas list.

Greg


On Fri, February 12, 2016 8:09 pm, Mike Small wrote:
> "Greg London" <[email protected]> writes:
>
>
>> Also, I recall way back when, perl 6 was going to have subroutines
>> you could call, that would return mid sub, and when called again it would
>> start up where it last left off. I think its called a Coroutine? Havent
>> seen that in the rakudo tutorials I have
>
> Perhaps you mean a continuation? Though from the last chapter of The
> Scheme Programming Language it would appear that coroutines can be
> implemented in terms of them. I have no idea if Perl 6 has them. Wish I
> could have gone to the meeting but I was too sick.
>
> --
> Mike Small
> [email protected]
>


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