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On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, David Given wrote:
>
> There's also a class of languages that is stack frame oriented but which
> doesn't use stacks. Each function call essentially allocates a new frame
> on the heap.

Some ML implementations (notably SML/NJ) do this, and (like Scheme)
support first-class continuation capture.

Tony.
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