Re: semantics of isolate

Dave Herman <[email protected]> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:08:33 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.sml.smlnj
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I haven't heard a response from anyone... if someone knows how `isolate' 
works I don't think it should be too hard of a question. Thanks again,

Dave

Dave Herman wrote:
> Can someone help clarify SMLofNJ.Cont.isolate for me? IIUC, the 
> semantics of isolate is something along the lines of:
> 
>      v ::= ... | cont(E') (* captured continuation *)
> 
>      E[isolate \x.e] ---> E[cont(E')]
>          where E' = e[x := []]
> 
> and the semantics of throw is roughly:
> 
>      E[throw cont(E') v] ---> E'[v]
> 
> So effectively, `throw (isolate \().e) ()' should be equivalent to 
> `abort e', where
> 
>      E[abort e] ---> e
> 
> Yes?
> 
> Thanks,
> Dave
> 
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