22 Oct
2012
22 Oct
'12
10:33 p.m.
Guido van Rossum wrote:
(Aside: please don't use 'continuation' for 'task'. The use of this term in Scheme has forever tainted the word for me.)
It has a broader meaning than the one in Scheme; essentially it's a synonym for "callback". I agree it shouldn't be used as a synonym for "task", though. In any of its forms, a continuation isn't an entire task, it's something that you call to cause the resumption of a task from a particular suspension point. -- Greg