Posted by Rick DeNatale Wed, 06 Jun 2007 21:00:00 GMT
Robert Dober discovered that the continuation example which I gave in last night’s article behaves badly if you run it with ruby rather than irb.I’ve made note of this in the original article, and I’ve added a simpler example which does work under ruby. I’ll try to come back with a new article which shows an example of how continuations are normally used.
Posted by Rick DeNatale Wed, 06 Jun 2007 01:41:00 GMT
Recently on ruby-talk someone asked if continuations and closures were the same thing.They are related in that they both are tied to a particular point in time in the execution of a program. The difference is that closures are like a souvenir of a trip, while continuations are like a kind of time-machine. Read more...
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