Re: [Caml-list] Python's yield, Lisp's call-cc or C's setjmp/longjmp in OCaml

[Oleg Trott <oleg_trott@columbia.edu>]

On Tuesday 16 December 2003 08:13 am, Nuutti Kotivuori wrote:
> I am wondering, does OCaml provide any variant of being able to
> bypass the normal function call and return discipline?
>
> More or less generic implementations of this can be seen in for
> example Python's yield instruction, Lisp's call-cc or call with
> current continuation, or C's setjmp/longjmp.

call/cc is Scheme, Common Lisp has "throw" instead, and ML has "raise".

> And if not, what are the chances of something like that seeing the
> light of day in the future? Are there any fundamental problems in
> OCaml that would make the implementation of such a thing exceedingly
> difficult?
>
> Just curiosity at this point.


-- 
Oleg Trott <oleg_trott@columbia.edu>

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