Re: Tour of our 250k line Clojure codebase

2021-06-09 Thread Timothy Baldridge
On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 6:14 PM Nathan Marz wrote: > Continuations in our language are expressed very differently than has > existed before (e.g. like in Scheme). They fit intuitively within the > overall paradigm our language implements. Far from being complex or hard to > comprehend,

Re: Tour of our 250k line Clojure codebase

2021-06-09 Thread Nathan Marz
Continuations in our language are expressed very differently than has existed before (e.g. like in Scheme). They fit intuitively within the overall paradigm our language implements. Far from being complex or hard to comprehend, continuations are the key construct that enables us to avoid

Re: Tour of our 250k line Clojure codebase

2021-06-09 Thread Leif
Hi Nathan. Interesting post. Here are some questions that I wrote down while reading it. First-class continuations + distributed programming sounds like a nightmare that would wake me up in a cold sweat. Like if a void pointer was bitten by a radioactive goto. Does your language have