Re: [Chicken-users] Continuations

[John Cowan]

Josh Barrett scripsit:

> This seems to imply that the state of variables in the scope the
> continuation was captured are restored with the continuation, but the state
> of variables in scopes higher up the stack are not. But that doesn't sound
> right. If the continuation is copying the entire stack, than every single
> lexical variable would have its state restored when the continuation was
> restored, all the way up to toplevel.

Sorry, you're right and I was wrong, of course.  However, truly global
variables are not affected by restoring a captured continuation.

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