Keith Devens .com - Weblog: $continuation = \&return;

Saturday, July 9, 2005

$continuation = \&return;

I just noticed Autrijus Tang's concise explanation of continuations (via, via, but main post blogged earlier):

Just today I tried to explain continuations to two fellow Perl programmers, and I came up with the notion that it's just:

$continuation = \&return;

They grokked it instantly.

If continuations find general use (one reason I'm looking forward to Perl 6 is I want to see what happens when the creativity of the Perl community is unleashed on continuations) programming will become much more interesting.

Permalink | Comments? | Tags: Programming | id 7081

20:18 (utc-5)

Comments

Feel free to post a comment below. Please see my comment policy.

Formatting Rules (No HTML):

**bold**, *italic*, _underlined_, --strikeout--
"text"="url" creates a link, and URLs are auto-highlighted
Blockquote: Like e-mail, begin paragraph with > (greater-than sign)
Lists: begin paragraph with *,-, or + (unordered), or # (ordered)
Code block: ?!code:language=perl|php|sql|javascript|etc.{\n}...{\n}?!/code

RSS feed RSS feed for Keith's Weblog
Atom feed Atom feed for Keith's Weblog
Weblog archive
Recent comments
on 3 posts