Path: utzoo!dciem!array!colin
From: colin@array.UUCP (Colin Plumb)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
Subject: Re: what makes programming?
Message-ID: <578@array.UUCP>
Date: 23 Aug 90 01:24:06 GMT
References: <9008201428.AA01042@samsung.com>
Organization: Array Systems Computing, Inc., Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
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In article <9008201428.AA01042@samsung.com> gjc@mitech.com writes:
> Perhaps it could be CALL/CC that really differentiates Scheme from
> just about every other programming language that exists.

Possibly.  I prefer just being able to get the enclosing continuation,
as one language a friend wrote did by making it available in the
magic identifier "return".  The result looked a lot like C, except
in the translations of the call/cc puzzles, which were littered with
things like "return return;"

Does anyone know why "call/cc" made it into scheme as the preferred way
to access continuations?  You often have code like:
(call/cc (lambda (cc) (...code that uses cc...)))
which seems slightly inelegant to me.
-- 
	-Colin