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1 point by absz 5765 days ago | link | parent

Actually, arc just compiles everything down to Scheme; Scheme, of course, has full continuation support, and thus so does Arc.

That's a nice explanation of continuations, but one comment: I think (if I remember what I read correctly) that writing ccc in terms of mark-the-current-spot (or perhaps get/cc, or gcc :P) is actually impossible, but I could be wrong. The other advantage of ccc is that every flow control construct can be simulated using it (including, but not limited to, C's return).



2 points by tokipin 5765 days ago | link

> I think (if I remember what I read correctly) that writing ccc in terms of mark-the-current-spot (or perhaps get/cc, or gcc :P) is actually impossible, but I could be wrong.

that's the short-term conclusion i came to when i was fidding with it. i didn't exactly prove it was the case though so i was being safe

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