Re^3: Why I learn a language.

[diotalevi]

I dunno about you but I've been meaning to check out Python for its continuation support and to see whether its closure serialization works better than perls (which plain doesn't).

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[Elian]

Python doesn't do continuations. For that you'd have to go to Ruby. (Or perl 6, but that's a ways off)

[diotalevi]

I read on p6l about Python's continuations as a potential model for perl6 continuations about a month ago.

[adrianh]

The core python language doesn't support continuations. The Stackless Python fork does. See the list of python implementations for a summary.

[Elian]

Taking anything on p6l as canon (or even correct) is a bit questionable. Python doesn't do continuations as part of the language, though as pointed out stackless python (which isn't really stackless, but that's a separate thing) does a form of them.

Ruby, on the other hand, does do continuations. (As does Lisp, Scheme, and Unlambda, come to think of it)