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A comment on What’s in a Continuation (2016). Parent comment

Re:What’s in a Continuation (2016) by ambicapter on Sunday July 02, 2017 @12:18AM (#14680866)
Sounds extremely dangerous/volatile, honestly.
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Re:What’s in a Continuation (2016) by 0x8BADF00D on Sunday July 02, 2017 @01:27AM (#14681055)
In what way specifically? Setjmp and longjmp have been in the C standard library forever. How do you think exception handling is implemented?
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Re:What’s in a Continuation (2016) by ScottBurson on Sunday July 02, 2017 @02:45AM (#14681218)
While 'setjmp' does capture something like a continuation, it's not a full firstclass continuation because it can't be invoked more than once.
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