Re: special forms, take two (was Re: A lua version of "amb")

[Tony Finch <dot@...>]

Jay Carlson <nop@nop.com> wrote:
>
> Smalltalk-80 blocks resembled closures but were not first class
> values; they were stack-allocated. (I remember bumping my shins on
> this before implementations fixed it.) Ruby syntax wants you to use
> blocks a particular way. So I guess both of those languages threw
> stumbling blocks in front of a functional style.

Blocks are associated with Tennent's Correspondence Principle which can
lead to fun with continuations - http://fanf.livejournal.com/118421.html

Tony.
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