22 Oct
2012
22 Oct
'12
10:35 p.m.
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
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".
(Off-topic:) But does that meaning apply to Scheme? If so, I wish someone would have told me 15 years ago...
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.
I guess that was just Steve showing off. :-) -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)