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From: Ville-Pertti Keinonen <will@exomi.com>
To: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Python's yield, Lisp's call-cc or C's setjmp/longjmp in OCaml
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 20:36:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <D19B0DF4-2FF6-11D8-BCC1-000393863F70@exomi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031216164528.GA20396@redhat.com>


On Dec 16, 2003, at 6:45 PM, Richard Jones wrote:

> Perhaps I'm being stupid here, but isn't it possible to get a similar
> effect (some would say a more comprehensible effect) by writing your
> own OCaml bindings for the makecontext/setcontext/getcontext family of
> functions?

They are unsafe and rather limited.  If you'd be willing to go to the 
trouble to make them safe, you might as well implement continuations 
which are more capable anyhow.

> Granted this would not be portable beyond Linux and Solaris, but who
> cares too much about that?

Lots of people.

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-16 18:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-16 13:13 Nuutti Kotivuori
2003-12-16 13:28 ` Oleg Trott
2003-12-18  0:15   ` Nuutti Kotivuori
2003-12-16 13:48 ` Ville-Pertti Keinonen
2003-12-16 15:41   ` Kenneth Knowles
2003-12-16 16:45     ` Richard Jones
2003-12-16 18:36       ` Ville-Pertti Keinonen [this message]
2003-12-16 18:42 ` Brian Hurt
2003-12-16 18:10   ` Dustin Sallings
2003-12-17  6:30     ` ijtrotts
2003-12-17  8:13       ` Dustin Sallings
2003-12-17 10:35       ` Falk Hueffner
2003-12-17 19:14         ` Pierre Weis
2003-12-17 19:32           ` Falk Hueffner
2003-12-17 20:04           ` David Brown
2003-12-18  1:14           ` Nicolas Cannasse
2003-12-18  5:31             ` David Brown
2003-12-18  7:05             ` Brian Hurt
2003-12-18  6:45               ` David Brown
2003-12-18 18:44             ` brogoff
2003-12-17 19:42         ` brogoff
2003-12-19 13:39           ` skaller
2003-12-18  0:51       ` Nuutti Kotivuori
2003-12-16 18:06 Kevin S. Millikin
2003-12-18 22:08 Ker Lutyn

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