Tim Peters wrote: ...
Continuations involving only Python stack frames might be supported, if we can agree on the the sharing / copying semantics. This is where I don't know enough see questions at #2 above).
I'd like to go back to examples of what they'd be used for <wink> -- but fully fleshed out. In the absence of Scheme's ubiquitous lexical closures and "lambdaness" and syntax-extension facilities, I'm unsure they're going to work out reasonably in Python practice; it's not enough that they can be very useful in Scheme, and Sam is highly motivated to go to extremes here.
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