Hi Stef, Thanks for the kind words! How would I go about doing that?
frank On 26 March 2014 07:26, Pharo4Stef <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi frank > > It would really great if you send an article on this to the ESUG workshop. > I can help reviewing the draft if you want. > Stef > >> Yes: http://ss3.gemstone.com/ss/Control.html >> >> Last time I checked I did need to add a shim (see the ControlPharo >> package), but it did load cleanly and pass all its own tests. >> >> Control not only provides a convenient way of making partial >> continuations (of the shift/reset sort, if you're familiar with the >> literature), but also _delimited_ dynamic variables. As soon as you >> start stack-slicing with partial continuations, you quickly find that >> standard implementations of dynamic variables fail in all sorts of >> nasty ways. Fundamentally, "normal" dynamic variables _cannot_ work >> cleanly with partial continuations because they either close over too >> much of the dynamic environment, or too little. >> >> Here's some reading on the topic: >> >> [1] http://okmij.org/ftp/Computation/dynamic-binding.html >> [2] http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~ccshan/dynscope/DDBinding.pdf >> [3] >> http://www.lshift.net/blog/2012/06/27/resumable-exceptions-can-macro-express-delimited-dynamic-variables >> >> frank >> >>>>>> Cheers, >>>>>> -- Pavel >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> best, >>>> Eliot >>> >>> >> > >
