{"id":1053,"date":"2012-08-31T07:23:51","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T11:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2012-08-31T07:24:07","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T11:24:07","slug":"arguments-against-callcc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=1053","title":{"rendered":"Arguments against <code>call\/cc<\/code>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/p-cos.blogspot.com\/\">Pascal Constanza<\/a> has a post that <a href=\"http:\/\/p-cos.blogspot.com\/2012\/08\/arguments-against-callcc.html\">points us to an article by Oleg Kiselyow<\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/okmij.org\/ftp\/continuations\/against-callcc.html\">argues against the call\/cc<\/a> function. Regular readers know that I am an admirer of <code>call\/cc<\/code> so I&#8217;m not sure I agree with the idea that <code>call\/cc<\/code> is a bad thing. To be fair, the article doesn&#8217;t really say that. Rather, the article argues against the idea that <code>call\/cc<\/code> should be a language primitive that is used to build other control operators.<\/p>\n<p>That said, the article does make good points\u2014especially about memory requirements\u2014and is worth a read by any Scheme lover. I still think that <code>call\/cc<\/code> is a useful and powerful construct but I&#8217;m inclined to agree that it probably shouldn&#8217;t be put forth as the basis for all other control constructs in Scheme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pascal Constanza has a post that points us to an article by Oleg Kiselyow that argues against the call\/cc function. Regular readers know that I am an admirer of call\/cc so I&#8217;m not sure I agree with the idea that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=1053\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","tag-scheme"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1107,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions\/1107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}