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Re:You Can Throw() Anything in JavaScript – and Other Async/... by regularfry on Friday April 08, 2022 @07:41AM (#30955730)
Now I'm wondering about throwing functions as continuations. This sounds incredibly messy. I love it.
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Re:You Can Throw() Anything in JavaScript – and Other Async/... by shadowgovt on Friday April 08, 2022 @08:57AM (#30956274)
I... May have done something like this once in a scripting language interpreter to implement return and break.

Not in JavaScript. And using continuations passed down from above would have been the much more correct way to do things.

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Re:You Can Throw() Anything in JavaScript – and Other Async/... by emteycz on Friday April 08, 2022 @08:27AM (#30956038)
Why not generators then?
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Re:You Can Throw() Anything in JavaScript – and Other Async/... by regularfry on Friday April 08, 2022 @08:55AM (#30956263)
Because that wouldn't be perversely abusing a language feature for completely the wrong purpose.
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