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Re: searching an explanation: call/cc and 'do' strangeness

To: Gary Houston <ghouston@easynet.co.uk>
Subject: Re: searching an explanation: call/cc and 'do' strangeness
From: Pierpaolo Bernardi <bernardp@cli.di.unipi.it>
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 17:45:11 +0200 (MET DST)
cc: pcn@tbit.dk, chl@tbit.dk, guile@cygnus.com
Organization: Centro di Calcolo - Dipartimento di Informatica di Pisa - Italy


On 27 Apr 1999, Gary Houston wrote:

> Hmm, folk-law says that continuations can be used to simulate threads,
> but I've never seen it done. 

Once upon a time, Siskind posted an implementation of threads built on
call/cc on the scheme mailing list.

P.

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