From: oleg@okmij.org
To: padator@wanadoo.fr
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Generators in OCaml
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 23:53:11 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100824065311.620E517415@Adric.ern.nps.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <72B69466-3FAC-41AC-96ED-6024DCBD341A@wanadoo.fr>
Yoann Padioleau wrote:
> Is there any tutorial on why such features are useful ?
> Concrete examples of their use.
Thank you for the question! I think you may find many examples
of delimited continuations on the following web site:
http://okmij.org/ftp/Computation/Continuations.html
Notable examples are the probabilistic programming language HANSEI,
normalization of MapReduce bodies by evaluation, and a framework to
program CGI applications in `direct style' (as if they were regular
console applications). Delimited continuations proved quite useful for
writing code generators: to perform let- or if-insertions in the
generated code, one has two choices: write the generator in a monadic
style or CPS, or use a `direct style' relying on delimited
control. Experience seems to show that direct-style generators are
more perspicuous.
> For instance can you implement python generators and its yield stuff
> by using this library ?
Yes! Here is the complete code
http://okmij.org/ftp/ML/generator.ml
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-24 6:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-23 1:34 Delimited continuations in OCaml go to 3.12 and 64 oleg
2010-08-23 21:38 ` [Caml-list] " Yoann Padioleau
2010-08-24 1:20 ` Jake Donham
2010-08-24 6:53 ` oleg [this message]
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