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

[Tony Finch <dot@...>]

Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:

> > Blocks are associated with Tennent's Correspondence Principle which can
> > lead to fun with continuations - http://fanf.livejournal.com/118421.html
>
> This principle, or more exactly its interpretation, sounds strange. What
> changes the meaning of a break or a continue is not putting them inside
> a block, but inside a loop.

I meant Smalltalk or Ruby blocks, which are a form of closure.

Tony.
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