Frank
I was asked to do a keynote to master, phd student and other and I would like
to show them that with the right
tool we can do some powerful abstractions.
I'm thinking showing them
thisContext use for haltIf
on:fork: example
do you have idea?
Should I look (I will ;)) look at Control and DynamicVariable?
Do you have other idea?
Stef
On Oct 13, 2012, at 5:54 PM, Frank Shearar wrote:
> On 13 October 2012 15:47, Damien Cassou <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I'm looking for a piece of code that is hard to understand by looking
>> at the source code but which has unit tests that help understanding
>> the behavior.
>>
>> Do you have any idea?
>
> http://ss3.gemstone.com/ss/Control/ has tests for delimited dynamic
> variables. The idea's not terribly complicated - close over a variable
> and use resumable exceptions to refer to it or change it - but if you
> don't have that in-a-nutshell idea in your head it can look a bit
> strange. But the tests in ControlTests' DelimitedDynamicVariableTest
> show quite clearly how dynamic binding works.
>
> (The delimited part probably won't make a lot of sense until one's
> managed to wrap one's head around control operators - shift, in this
> case - so the nice interaction between the delimited continuations and
> the delimited dynamic variables might be lost on a newbie.)
>
> frank
>
>> --
>> Damien Cassou
>> http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st
>>
>> "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without
>> losing enthusiasm."
>> Winston Churchill
>>
>
