Re: toplevel continuation bug?

--- "Scott G. Miller" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 08:15:56AM -0800, Theodore
> Bondo wrote:
> > Running 1.9.6,
> > 
> > Say I have the following code in a file:
> > 
> > (define c 'undefined)
> >  
> > (call-with-current-continuation
> >  (lambda (cc) (set! c cc)))
> > 
> > and I load that code using (load filename).  Okay,
> > everything is fine until I try calling the
> > continuation (c 1)- SISC just exits hard.  It
> exits so
> > hard that I have been unable to figure out how to
> get
> > a stack trace.  It seems that I can call the
> > continuation while in the file but once the file
> is
> > fully loaded- calling the continuation just exits
> > hard.
> 
> The problem is that the continuation of an
> expression executed in the 
> REPL is usually the Loop portion of R.E.P.L.  But
> when loading a file, 
> there is no continuation, so when you invoke the
> continuation captured 
> during load, SISC naturally exits, having nothing
> left to do.  
> 
> This is similar to the behavior described in the
> Note in the Basic 
> Thread Operations section of the manual:
> 
>
http://sisc.sourceforge.net/manual/html/ch06.html#id2569396
> 
> 	Scott
> 
> 

> ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature 

Thanks for the reply.  That was more or less my guess
on what was happening- just wasn't sure if this was
considered a bug.


		
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