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

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From:	Ville-Pertti Keinonen <will@e...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Python's yield, Lisp's call-cc or C's setjmp/longjmp in OCaml


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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