Jpython and continuations

[Paul Prescod]

Tim Peters wrote:
>
> ... 
> Discussions on this stretched over many months last year, beginning in about
> May.  Guido developed a nearly complete implementation plan for generators
> in the "Generator details" thread of July '99, in the Python-Dev archives.

One thing to consider is what of this can be easily added to JPython.
I'm a little leery about continuations because JPython uses the Java
stack, doesn't it? It does have a concept of a Python frame but the
"instruction pointer" is implicit in the JVM, not explicit in an
interpreter loop.

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