Call-cc in Go?

Julian

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Nov 11, 2009, 5:13:39 AM11/11/09

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Is it possible to use a call-cc in Go?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call-with-current-continuation

Adam Langley

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Nov 11, 2009, 10:43:23 AM11/11/09

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On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 2:13 AM, Julian <julian...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is it possible to use a call-cc in Go?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call-with-current-continuation

No. It's not completely possible to imagine since the stacks are heap
allocated, but I don't believe that we have plans for continuations at
the moment.

AGL

John Cowan

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Nov 11, 2009, 4:32:17 PM11/11/09

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Goroutines are equivalent to one-shot (use and forget) continuations anyhow.

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> AGL
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roger peppe

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Nov 12, 2009, 11:09:06 AM11/12/09

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2009/11/11 John Cowan <johnw...@gmail.com>:

> Goroutines are equivalent to one-shot (use and forget) continuations anyhow.

but they're not garbage collected in the same way, right?

Ian Lance Taylor

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Nov 12, 2009, 6:22:54 PM11/12/09

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Currently they are not, correct. The plan is that eventually they
will be.

Ian

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