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brlewis on Oct 11, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: "Unknown or expired link." - Why?

Out of curiosity, are there any places where the hn codebase would be smaller if you used full continuations instead of just closures, allowing code akin to what I quoted from the PLT paper?

pg on Oct 11, 2011 [–]

Possibly, but not many. It was surprising (in this application at least) how rarely I needed full continuations.

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