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From: Andrej Bauer <Andrej.Bauer@fmf.uni-lj.si>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Which control structure?
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 20:41:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <470290BC.8020604@fmf.uni-lj.si> (raw)

I would like to have a control structure which allows me to "copy 
continuations". The idea is to obtain a continuation and then try what 
would happen if we passed it various values.

An example: suppose we have a p : (unit -> bool) -> bool. I want to compute

  (p (fun () -> false), p (fun -> true))

in a particularly strange way (I have my reasons), something like this:

  callcc (fun k ->
     p (fun () -> (callcc l -> k (l false, l true))); raise Badness)

This of course does not make any sense, but I am trying to convey an idea:

- we register the continuation k
- we start evaluating p on our specially crafted argument
- if p never evaluates the specially crafted argument we raise
   an exception
- if p evaluates the special argument, we record "the continuation"
   l and then we want to _evaluate it twice_: once by passing it
   false and once by passing it true. We want to collect the results
   and pass them to the outer continuation k.

I am asking, is there out there (in whatever language) something that 
would let me do this?

Andrej


             reply	other threads:[~2007-10-02 18:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-02 18:41 Andrej Bauer [this message]
2007-10-02 22:24 ` [Caml-list] " Andrej Bauer

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