functional programming

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <000801bf7daa$80dde000$51a0143f at tim>,
Tim Peters <tim_one at email.msn.com> wrote:
>
>2.5. One great thing that shakes bugs out of Python code is that it
>   raises an exception whenever it has a reasonable doubt about the
>   code you told it execute, and a key part of making that *usable*
>   is Python's never-lies complete stack trace.  If A calls B tails
>   calls C tail calls D blows up, I damn sure don't want a traceback
>   claiming that A called D directly.  I want to get a traceback object
>   with the full chain intact, and I want to crawl up that chain to
>   examine the state of the locals in B and C at the time they made
>   their calls.  Optimize intermediate frames away, and tracebacks
>   would become much harder to decipher.

Say!  Couldn't you use continuations to store those intermediate frames
in case you ever throw an exception?

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