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Re:Why I love Common Lisp and hate Java (2012) by mbrock on Sunday November 04, 2018 @03:46AM (#18374918)
Isn't that really hard to implement correctly in Common Lisp? Your macro would need to perform a continuation-passing style transformation on arbitrary code that could involve jumps, error, etc.
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Re:Why I love Common Lisp and hate Java (2012) by truncate on Monday November 05, 2018 @02:49PM (#18385325)
You don't need to do CPS transformations if your language supports first class continuations. Lookup `call/cc`
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Re:Why I love Common Lisp and hate Java (2012) by mbrock on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @01:53AM (#18388946)
Indeed, but Common Lisp doesn’t!
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