Greg Ewing wrote: > BTW, if you *really* want to understand continuations, you > need to carry out the following exercise: Write a Scheme > interpreter in Scheme, doing it in a continuation-passing > style. [1] > > You'll find that it's possible to do this using a subset > of Scheme that doesn't itself have continuations, yet it > will be trivially easy to make it so that your interpreter > implements a Scheme that does. > > If you carry out this exercise successfully, and make it > actually work, at some point along the way you will have > a Zen-like flash of insight, and will suddenly understand > exactly what a continuation is and how it works. > > (The other possibility is that you will still be none the > wiser. If this happens, you will never understand > continuations. Give up programming language implementation > and become a potato farmer. :-)
Thanks for the suggestion, Greg. Methinks I'll just go get myself hammered on some vodka... a much easier way to get the same kind of headache... _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
