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Re:Abusing Python exceptions to turn a recursive function it... by icebraining on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @01:17AM (#16481083)
Nope, we've had "finally:" (the equivalent of unwind-protect) for decades. And this code doesn't use it.
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Re:Abusing Python exceptions to turn a recursive function it... by thr0000waay on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @04:50PM (#16487401)
Good. Now discover call/cc.
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Re:Abusing Python exceptions to turn a recursive function it... by icebraining on Thursday March 01, 2018 @04:15PM (#16496412)
No thanks, it's a terrible control structure. We already have coroutines for doing most of what you can do with call/cc without its problems.
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