Re: The Web, Continuations, and All That

[Andy Wingo]

On Sun 22 Jan 2012 21:46, Ian Price <address@hidden> writes:

> Tobias Gerdin <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> To get better acquainted with continuations I have been playing with
>> them in the context of web programming a bit.  Much has been written
>> on the topic (in particular I find the Racket tutorials very
>> instructive), and here I would just like to share the small
>> experiments I did using delimited continuations and the Guile (web
>> server). Kudos to Andy for providing a very nice foundation.
>
> It's always nice to see someone playing with continuations.

Yes, that was beautiful.  I'm happy you were able to get something
going, Tobias.  Did you ever run into problems with non-resumable
continuations?

> Your example is very similar to one I did a while back
> https://gist.github.com/1381107.

Ah, thanks for that note, Ian.

> It would be if someone(nudge nudge) were to take the effort to make
> one of these experiments practical, since a guile web framework seems
> to be a common request.

Indeed!

Andy
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