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A comment on Algebraic Effects – You Can Touch This (2019).

Re:Algebraic Effects – You Can Touch This (2019) by artemonster on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @05:55AM (#33981997)
> I don't know much about the scope of the theoretical work there. The missing ingredient is implied to be "continuations", which are not supported in Common Lisp.

„I have a partial understanding of a related concept and zero knowledge on the actual topic, so let me write a blog post“

CL condition system is a strict subset of algebraic effects (or any effect system)

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Re:Algebraic Effects – You Can Touch This (2019) by TeMPOraL on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @06:52AM (#33982323)
> „I have a partial understanding of a related concept and zero knowledge on the actual topic, so let me write a blog post“

Would you prefer me to not write about related concepts I do know about, or just to omit the disclaimer next time and confidently pretend I know everything?

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Re:Algebraic Effects – You Can Touch This (2019) by artemonster on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @07:34AM (#33982632)
I have no preferences, you do you. Kudos for putting the disclaimer :)
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