[Rd] callCC in 2.7.0

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Sun Mar 30 18:34:42 CEST 2008


I think the only relationship to that is the name since
it does not appear to allow one to leave a function
in the middle of its processing and re-enter it back
at that point -- which is what would be needed.

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 12:04 PM,  <h.wickham at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Would anyone like to explain if callCC in R 2.7.0 gives
> > anything that on.exit does not already provide?
> >
> > It seems that the exit condition once defined cannot
> > be added to overridden whereas with on.exit multiple
> > on.exit's add additional on.exits rather than being ignored.
> >
> > Is this important?
>
> It facilitates a completely different style of programming - see
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation-passing_style
>
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