Re: Continuations

On Sun, 14 Jul 2024 09:38:31 +0000, aph wrote:

But I can't immediately think of any language with
continuations and without GC. They kinda go together.

Instead of “GC”, I would say “dynamic allocation”. Consider languages like
Python and Perl, which do reference-counting as a first resort, only
falling back to full-on garbage collection when reference-counting is no
longer enough. That gives you the best of both worlds.

Of course, neither of of them has continuations as such, or at least
fully-general ones: Python does have both “generator” functions and the
newer async/await-style “stackless” coroutines.