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Re: Strangest language feature by jbert on Sunday March 24, 2013 @05:42PM (#5433828)
Not in the sense of "wrong", but in terms of difficulty of comprehension, for me it's call/cc in scheme:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call-with-current-continuation

The main thing which helped me get some kind of grip on it was having worked through longjmp/setjump in C some time ago.

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Re: Strangest language feature by victorh on Sunday March 24, 2013 @06:15PM (#5434018)
If you check with Oleg, it actually is wrong! Delimited continuations are strictly more powerful and composable. We're supposed to be using shift/reset or prompt/abort.
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