abusing exceptions for continuations

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

gangesmaster a écrit :
> i've had this strange idea of using the exception's traceback (which
> holds the stack frame) to enable functional continuations, meaning,
> raise some special exception which will be caught by a reactor/
> scheduler/framework, which could later revive it by restoring the
> frame.
> 
> i'm thinking of using the generator's implementation (some minimal
> support on the c-side)
> 
> has this been tried before? what were the results?

I don't know, but you may want to have a look at Stackless Python.