Re: Continuations in Common Lisp (with apologies)

mmcconnell17704_at_yahoo.com
Date: 01/25/05 

Date: 25 Jan 2005 08:31:22 -0800

Paul Graham's _On Lisp_ discusses how to implement continuations in
Common
Lisp. Your question is "why (not)", not "how", but I don't remember
how much
of the "why" Graham addresses. Anyway, the book is at
http://www.paulgraham.com/paulgraham/onlisp.html

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