Thus it was written in the epistle of Peter Scott, > > So if you could serialize a continuation, you could freeze your program > state to disk and restore it later? Cool, makes for easy checkpoint/restarts.
I think that that would be true only if *all* data was maintained in those scratchpads which are related to the continuation. It doesn't just save all data generally or $foo (from the example) would never really get decremented. Ted -- Ted Ashton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | From the Tom Swifty collection: Southern Adventist University | "The bank doesn't even want me as a Deep thought to be found at | depositor", said Tom unaccountably. http://www.southern.edu/~ashted |
