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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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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