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So the (real) continuation (saved in a global variable) could be called even after the body of call_cc returned?

I see. If the function call activation frames are treated just like everything else, and there is no special action for "going out of scope", keeping a live reference to it is just like any other closure.

In Perl 6 we'll have to watch it because of the mechanism for having block-exit code in a finally clause or added dynamically by a caller. What would that do, if one can exit more times than enter?! (I have some ideas of what it should mean, but that's for another thread)

—John

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: (Perl6) Groking Continuations by John M. Dlugosz
in thread (Perl6) Groking Continuations by crenz

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