Stackless 3.0 alpha 1 at blinding speed

Jeff Epler jepler at unpythonic.net
Fri Apr 18 14:33:43 EDT 2003


On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 10:28:18AM -0700, Mike Rovner wrote:
> "Martin v. L�wis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote in message
> 
> > > Is there a short way to say why Guido didn't want continuations?
> >
> > He didn't like the implementation strategy; I believe he was neutral
> > about the feature per se.
> 
> Second that.
> AFAIK one of the points was/is the ability to implement it in Jython,
> which is/was impossible while you are mangling with C stack frames.

AFAIK, generator functions have turned out to be quite difficult in Java
too, but that didn't seem to stop their acceptance.

Jeff





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