Re^3: Why I learn a language.

I dunno about you but I've been meaning to check out Python for its continuation support and to see whether its closure serialization works better than perls (which plain doesn't).

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Re: Re^3: Why I learn a language. by Elian (Parson) on Feb 25, 2003 at 14:45 UTC
Python doesn't do continuations. For that you'd have to go to Ruby. (Or perl 6, but that's a ways off)	[reply]
Re^5: Why I learn a language. by diotalevi (Canon) on Feb 25, 2003 at 17:32 UTC
I read on p6l about Python's continuations as a potential model for perl6 continuations about a month ago.	[reply]
Re^6: Why I learn a language. by adrianh (Chancellor) on Feb 25, 2003 at 17:52 UTC
The core python language doesn't support continuations. The Stackless Python fork does. See the list of python implementations for a summary.	[reply]
Re: Re^5: Why I learn a language. by Elian (Parson) on Feb 25, 2003 at 18:34 UTC
Taking anything on p6l as canon (or even correct) is a bit questionable. Python doesn't do continuations as part of the language, though as pointed out stackless python (which isn't really stackless, but that's a separate thing) does a form of them. Ruby, on the other hand, does do continuations. (As does Lisp, Scheme, and Unlambda, come to think of it)	[reply]
Re^7: Why I learn a language. by diotalevi (Canon) on Feb 25, 2003 at 19:15 UTC