GNU bug report logs - #18356
Should partial continuations capture the dynamic environment?

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Package: guile;

Reported by: Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer <taylanbayirli <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 18:13:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 18356 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer <taylanbayirli <at> gmail.com>
To: 18356 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Should partial continuations capture the dynamic environment?
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 16:25:27 +0200

It has been explained on the #guile Freenode channel that this
behavior is indeed desired and not a bug, being argued for by some
authors of papers on delimited continuations:

http://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/publications/icfp07-fyff.pdf

http://okmij.org/ftp/papers/DDBinding.pdf


In short, no: partial continuations in Guile should not (and do not)
capture their dynamic environment.


Thanks to Andy Wingo for the clarification.

Taylan
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