Re: The case against call/cc

[Sean Devlin <francoisdevlin@gmail.com>]

I've never seen the appeal of call/cc, because it's my understanding that you can get most of the same benefits using immutable data structures (e.g. Clojure). Is this right, or am I confusing unrelated topics?

Sean Devlin

On Aug 22, 2012, at 8:55 PM, "Lalish-Menagh, Trevor" <trev@trevmex.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I thought that since we are all continuation junkies here, we might
> find this interesting:
> http://okmij.org/ftp/continuations/against-callcc.html
> 
> The article argues that call/cc is a bad core feature for a language
> (if you are designing a language), and claims that it is even worse
> that goto.
> 
> In any case, it is an interesting read.
> 
> Yours,
> Trevor
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