11 Mar
2020
11 Mar
'20
08:11
On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 02:32:17AM -0400, Faré wrote:
—♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org We could have an obfuscated-scheme contest, but if call/cc and macros are allowed, that would be like using nuclear bombs to hunt bunnyrabbits... — Ray Dillinger
Indeed. Guy Steele pointed out long ago that continuations had all the power of go-to's, and used that in Rabbit, his Scheme compiler. Yes, a bunnyrabbit.
And as for nuclear bombs, continuations hav all the problems of go-to's as well. The only reason we tolerate this is that continuations are much, much more useful.
-- hendrik