Xref: utzoo comp.object:505 comp.lang.c++:5671 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!wugate!uunet!cimshop!davidm From: cimshop!davidm@uunet.UU.NET (David S. Masterson) Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: Continuations Message-ID: Date: 28 Nov 89 07:14:15 GMT References: <2664@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> <9624@pyr.gatech.EDU> <1623@odin.SGI.COM> Sender: news@cimshop.UUCP Organization: Consilium Inc., Mountain View, California. Lines: 15 In-reply-to: shap@delrey.sgi.com's message of 27 Nov 89 16:34:59 GMT In article <1623@odin.SGI.COM> shap@delrey.sgi.com (Jonathan Shapiro) writes: I do not believe that it is feasible to add continuations to C++ for any number of reasons, but I would be interested to hear the reactions in this community regarding their utility in object-oriented programming. Hmmm. Something in this caught my interest, but I'm not quite sure what. Taking a purely object-oriented stab at it, might the idea of continuations be implemented as merely messaging a static data area? Is there more to it? -- =================================================================== David Masterson Consilium, Inc. uunet!cimshop!davidm Mt. View, CA 94043 =================================================================== "If someone thinks they know what I said, then I didn't say it!" Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com