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From: nn@wheaties.ai.mit.edu (Nick Nussbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Continuations
Summary: Reference on Continuations in C/C++
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Date: 6 Dec 89 20:28:19 GMT
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	Those interested in continuations in C might want to look
at a paper by Thomas Bruel which I believe was presented at the
Usenix 88 conference. He proposed implementing closures by
generating pointer to some automatically generated code which sets
up the environment and then jumps into the function. Thus closures
can be used in the same way as vanilla function pointers. He also
discusses the desirablility of nested functions.

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