[Haskell-cafe] Re: Delimited continuations: please comment

Cristiano Paris frodo at theshire.org
Fri Feb 13 04:11:02 EST 2009


On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:05 AM, Chung-chieh Shan
<ccshan at post.harvard.edu> wrote:
> ...
> It's not unheard of for the scheduler to react in different ways to the
> same system call -- I'm thinking of reading from a file, for example.

Sure, I went implementing something slitghtly different to double
check my understanding of delconts.

> You clearly understand the whole idea, and your code demonstrates it in
> a nice way.  Oleg and I have found this programming style particularly
> convenient when we need to
>  - fork processes (i.e., backtrack in the monad),
>  - run the same processes under different schedulers (e.g., a debugger),
>  - nest the applications of schedulers (i.e., provide virtualization).

Thanks for your feedback.

Cristiano


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