Re: Compiling with Continuations/Andrew Appel

oz@ursa.sis.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit)
Wed, 29 Jan 1992 14:26:03 -0500

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From: oz@ursa.sis.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit)
Keywords: storage, Scheme
Organization: York U. Student Information Systems Project
References: 92-01-091 92-01-101
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1992 14:26:03 -0500

eifrig@blaze.cs.jhu.edu (Jonathan Eifrig) writes:


       ... In particular, it demonstrates the (somewhat) surprising
      fact: the notion of a "continuation", originally introduced to give a
      denotational semantics to imperative-style languages, can be used as a
      foundation of a compiler.


Correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't this surprizing fact date back to
Guy Steele's Rabbit compiler detailed in "Rabbit: a Compiler for Scheme",
MIT AI Memo 474, May 1978?


For those interested, further references to Wand, Friedman, Haynes etc.
work on continuations may be found in the Scheme Bibliography [somewhat
out-of-date these days], available from the Scheme Repository currently
situated at nexus.yorku.ca under pub/scheme/*.


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