Re: Abominations of nature (was: Features you would like to see)

["Alex Queiroz" <asandroq@...>]

Hallo,

On 8/22/07, Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
> >      That's true, but some discipline can solve that. The usual
> > programming style in Scheme is functional, so side-effects are hardly
> > an issue.
>
> That is exactly my point. Multiple-shot continuations may be useful for
> Scheme (although I haven't seen *convincing* evidence [1]), but not for
> Lua, where side effects are the norm.
>

     Well, I was not advocating them for Lua. :-)

Cheers,
-- 
-alex
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