Scheme language standardization process
On Mon, 02 May 2011 08:32:39 -0400, Alaric Snell-Pym <alaric@x> wrote: > As an aside, I've often wondered if it might be > desirable/possible/practical to offer an interface to introspect > continuations by extracting the chain of closures they might be > represented as / be isomorphic to, which is closely related to the > notion of "call chain" in stack-defined execution models. Which would be > far more generic than a Java-esque "backtraces exist inside exception > objects" system... I do not know about other Scheme implementations, but Chez Scheme provides such an inspector in both interactive and programmatic forms. Interesting, but definitely too scary to standardize. Aaron W. Hsu -- Programming is just another word for the lost art of thinking. _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list Scheme-reports@x http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports