Call-cc in Go?

[Julian]

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

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

[Adam Langley]

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]

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

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> AGL
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[roger peppe]

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]

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

Ian